[Jamaal Bowman\NY-16\Juneteenth]
Bowman: “Making Juneteenth a national holiday would be just one step, albeit a significant one, in a larger effort to root out the racism that’s been part of this country since the very beginning.’
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Frederick Douglass
NY-16 Congressional Challenger Bowman: Make Juneteenth a National Holiday
DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE STATUE TO BE UNVEILED AT U.S. CAPITOL NEXT YEAR
[Women’s History Month\Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune\U.S. Statuary Hall]
Mary McLeod was the 15th child to slaves on a farm near Mayesville, South Carolina. She would become one of America’s leading advocates for education, civil, and voting rights, the founder of one of America’s premier schools—Bethune-Cookman College.
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What Is The 4th Of July To Victims Of Oppression—Frederick Douglass Spoke Truth To Power
[Remembering Frederick Douglas]
Frederick Douglass: “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.”
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