[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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[D.C. Statehood\Rep. Norton\H.R. 51]
“Not only do D.C. residents pay federal taxes like other Americans. Our residents pay more in federal taxes than any other Americans; in fact, the highest federal taxes per capita in the United States.”
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[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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