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When slaves sued for freedom: A city reckons with its past

April 4, 2012 Frank Kovarik Civil Rights, Courts, History, Human Rights, Missouri region 3 comments

In Memphis, they’ve turned the hotel where Martin Luther King was murdered into a museum honoring the Civil Rights Movement. Across the South, “Civil

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