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Dawson, Daisy Lee Tibbs (1924-2013)

When the principal, J.T. Wright and his wife, a white couple who served as mentors to Tibbs, accepted a position at the University of Washington (UW), they convinced her to move to Seattle with them in 1944 to continue her education. As a student at the University of Washington Tibbs met Akiko

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1942

Dellums, Ronald Vernie (1935- )

Ronald Vernie Dellums was born on November 24, 1935 in Oakland, California to Willa Terry Dellums and Vernie Dellums. His father Vernie Dellums was a longshoreman, and his mother was a labor organizer. As a child, Ron attended St. Patrick Catholic School in

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1998

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1974

McGann, C. Steven (1951 - )

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1989

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1919

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1990

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Todman, Terence A. (1926-2014)

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The U.S. Senate overrides President Ronald Reagan's veto of legislation imposing

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(1957) Dwight Eisenhower, “Address on Little Rock"

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1957

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Brown, Gayleatha Beatrice (1947-2013)

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1959

South Africa's Pan Africanist Congress suspended its armed struggle against the

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