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Pilgrim Baptist Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is the oldest African American church in the state of Minnesota. A group of escaped slaves began worshiping together in 1863, and under the leadership of fellow escaped slave Robert Thomas Hickman, the church officially became Pilgrim Baptist Church
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Greene, Lorenzo Johnston (1899-1988)
Dr. Lorenzo Johnston Greene was a pioneering African American historian.  Greene was born on November 16, 1899 in Ansonia, Connecticut.  He received his BA from Howard University in Washington, D.C. in 1924 and his MA in history from Columbia University in 1926.  From 1928 to 1933, Greene served as
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(1932) Angelo Herndon Addresses His Jury
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Martin R. Delany
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(1834) William Whipper, “The Slavery of Intemperance”
? By the 1830s William Whipper was a successful Pennsylvania lumberman. He was also an abolitionist and temperance advocate. Whipper’s interest in temperance reflected a growing concern among African American leaders about the impact of alcohol on the free (and enslaved) African American popula
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(1968) Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
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(1963) George Wallace, “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever”
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(1955) Martin Luther King Jr., “The Montgomery Bus Boycott”
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Wynn, Albert R. (1951- )
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Lenhardt, Alfonso E. (1943- )
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Lewis, Arthur W. (1926- )
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