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African American Union soldier and first man wounded in the Civil War
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Escaped slaves, at Foller’s house, Cumberland Landing, Virginia
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Free In Name Only
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Southern jails made money leasing convicts for forced labor in the Jim Crow South
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“Why does America tolerate the lynching of Negroes?”
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Benjamin Sterling Turner (1825 – 1894)
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Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) lifelong activist for abolition of slavery and civil rights for freed slaves and women