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(1995) William Jefferson Clinton, “the Job of Ending Discrimination in This Counrt is Not Over”
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(2017) New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's Address on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans
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(1871) Congressman Jefferson F. Long, “Speech On Disorders In The South”
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