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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Ongoing - Fighting for our Children, Fighting for our Rights
This reminds me of Barbara Johns fighting for a new school in Farmville, Virginia in 1951 and why the MS Freedom Schools of 1964 were more popular than their creators ever imagined they would be.
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This reminds me of Barbara Johns fighting for a new school in Farmville, Virginia in 1951 and why the MS Freedom Schools of 1964 were more popular than their creators ever imagined they would be.
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