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Tag: Civil rights movement

Lesser-known heroes of the civil rights movement

February 6, 2014 Hafsa Activism, Civil Rights, History One comment

We’ve all heard the timeworn speeches eulogizing the 16th president of our great nation for his iconoclastic measures to end slavery and admired his

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