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(2013) Ben Carson's Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast
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New York Draft Riots
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(1877) Alexander Crummell, “Address Before the American Geographical Society”
African American intellectual Alexander Crummell was one of the few19th century scholars known and respected widely among European Americans. In an address before the American Geographical Society delivered in Chickering Hall in New York City on May 22, 1877, Crummell demonstrates his appeal to one
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Partin the Waters: Do not give legs to creeping fascism
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(1849) Charles Sumner, “Equality Before the Law: Unconstitutionality of Separate Colored Schools in Massachusetts”
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Sue K. Brown (1948- )
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Ama Ata Aidoo
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Mar
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1942
(1965) Lyndon B. Johnson, "To Fulfill These Rights"
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(1964) George C. Wallace, “The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax”
By 1964 George C. Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, had become the national symbol of opposition to the civil rights movement and to federal governmental intervention to protect the rights of African Americans.  In the address below he denounces President Lyndon B. Johnson for signing into law the
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1939
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(1898) Rev. Charles S. Morris Describes The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
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