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Comedic icon Mantan Moreland, perhaps best known as sidekick Birmingham Brown in a series of Charlie Chan mysteries in the 1940s, also starred in several all-black horror-comedies with his straight man, F.E. Miller— including this one about a pair of men who win a house in a game of craps. The only

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1936

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Shooting of Oscar Grant

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1913

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1968

Juanita Jewel Shanks Craft (1902-1985) and the Long Civil Rights Movement in Texas

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Shooting of Renisha McBride

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(1838) James McCune Smith, “The Abolition Of Slavery And The Slave Trade In The French And British Colonies”

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1838

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