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March 26, 2009 339 0

The Historian Who Lived What He Taught

John Hope Franklin, who died yesterday at 94, was one of the most remarkable Americans of the 20th century. He was the master of the great American story of that...

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March 26, 2009 341 0

National Archives Hosts Fifth Genealogy Fair, April 22-23, 2009

The National Archives will host its fifth annual Genealogy Fair. This year’s two-day program will showcase Federal records located at the National Archives and...

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March 22, 2009 341 0

Founded by slaves: A unique S.C. town

Lincolnville is the only South Carolina town founded by freed slaves and free blacks that still exists, as well as the only one named after Abraham Lincoln, the...

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March 22, 2009 355 0

Historic cemetery restored, dedicated

For years, the final resting place of two freed slaves and their descendants lay forgotten, covered by leaves and brush off of Old Mill Road in Ridgeway. After the...

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March 22, 2009 350 0

Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin

Few people know the story of Claudette Colvin: When she was 15, she refused to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white person — nine months before...

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March 22, 2009 323 0

Gates keeps going back to roots

On the heels of a successful PBS series documenting the ancestry of 19 African-Americans, Harvard professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates has published a book...

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March 11, 2009 339 0

Case Study: Two Negro Boys Named Elijah and Frank: The Search for My Slave Roots

Initially my motives were less than noble—I wanted money for school. Because my family’s oral history claimed that we descended from Cherokee Indians, I thought that...

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