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Narrator: Norwood Hasty was asked if he thinks slavery was immoral. Norwood Hasty: No, no. I don’t, because when a slave came from Africa, he couldn’t speak the language, he was totally untrained to do any any job at all that would fit in with the civilization.

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A lesser-known Black wedding tradition involves crossing tall wooden sticks to represent both the life force within trees and the first two pieces of wood the couple will use to build their home together.

A lesser-known Black wedding tradition involves crossing tall wooden sticks to represent both the life force within trees and the first two pieces of wood the couple will use to build their home together.
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Colorized photos of Angela Davis speaking behind a four-sided bulletproof glass shield at Madison Square Garden on June 29, 1972

Colorized photos of Angela Davis speaking behind a four-sided bulletproof glass shield at Madison Square Garden on June 29, 1972
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Black people discuss how they felt it was bad that low-income Black people from the south started moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s

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Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend an all-white public elementary school, was born on September 8, 1954. She’s 70 today.

Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend an all-white public elementary school, was born on September 8, 1954. She’s 70 today.
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"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress" - Malcolm X

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"Columbus diary that says, the Africans know a way to the west, but it goes around the doldrums we would never survive." - Dr. Barbara Sizemore