Forward and Introduction
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8:28 |
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"The Birdlet," Alexander Poushkin
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1:14 |
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"The Sparrow's Fall," Frances E. W. Harper
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2:01 |
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"The Seedling," Paul Laurence Dunbar
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1:31 |
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"While April Breezes Blow," D.T. Williamson
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2:32 |
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"Thanksgiving," William Stanley Braithwaite
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1:14 |
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"The Cucuya or Firefly," a Cuban slave
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3:38 |
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"The Clock that Gains," the Cuban slave
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0:59 |
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"A June Song," Charlotte Forten Grimke
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2:40 |
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"A City Garden," William Stanley Braithwaite
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1:19 |
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"De 'Lil Black Sheep," Ballarat (Australia) Chronicle
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1:46 |
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"In the Morning," Paul Laurence Dunbar
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2:34 |
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"Dat Ol' Mare O' Mine," Paul Laurence Dunbar
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3:33 |
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"The Case of Ca'line," Paul Laurence Dunbar
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7:31 |
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"Sambo's Right to Be Kilt," Private Miles O'Reilly
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2:13 |
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"An Easter Symbol," Ruth McEnery Stuart
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4:28 |
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"The Funal of Bruh Tony Smiff," John Riley Dungee
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8:17 |
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"Tunk," James Weldon Johnnson
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2:41 |
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"Uncle Ike's Roosters," Anonymous
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4:27 |
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"W'en Dey 'Listed the Colored Soldiers," Paul Lawrence Dunbar
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3:51 |
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"The Praline Woman," Alice Ruth Moore
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5:24 |
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"Mammy Clarissa's Vengeance," Payne Erskine
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20:27 |
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"The Four Travelers," Will Carlton
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3:23 |
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"The Band of Gideon," Joseph Cotter, Jr.
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1:57 |
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"The White Witch," James Weldon Johnson
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2:47 |
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"The Unsung Heroes," Paul Laurence Dunbar
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2:55 |
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"Black Samson of Brandywine," Paul Laurence Dunbar
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2:29 |
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"The Haunted Oak," Paul Laurence Dunbar
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3:34 |
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"Ode to Ethiopia," Paul Laurence Dunbar
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2:45 |
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from "The Finish of Patsy Barnes," Paul Laurence Dunbar
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3:50 |
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"Prophecy," Reverdy C. Ransom
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2:15 |
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"Hear, O Church," E.A. Long
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2:28 |
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"Dessalines," William Edgar Easton
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6:06 |
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"The Sisters," Charles W. Chesnutt
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10:25 |
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"Modern Christmas on the Plantation," William E. Burghardt DuBois
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8:39 |
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"The Farewell," John G. Whittier
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3:32 |
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"How He Saved St. Michael's," Mary Anna Phinny Stansbury
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5:44 |
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"The Fugitive Slave's Apostrophe to the North Star," John Pierpont
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4:16 |
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"Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," Walt Whitman
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1:46 |
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"The African Chief," William Cullen Bryant
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3:12 |
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"The Black Man's Burden," John White Chadwick
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2:39 |
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"The Lights at Carney's Point," Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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2:55 |
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"It's Me O Lord," Alma and Paul Ellerbe
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3:40 |
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"How France Received the Negro Soldiers," Emmett J. Scott
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5:31 |
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"How Jim Europe and His Jazz Outfit Broke into the War," Charles Welton
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5:52 |
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"The Stevedores," Ellen Wheeler Wilcox
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2:02 |
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"Shall I Say, 'My Son You Are Branded'," Georgia Douglas Johnson
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1:24 |
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"In Flanders Fields--an Echo," Orlando C. W. Taylor
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1:33 |
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"I Sit and Sew," Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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1:52 |
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"The Lynchers," Madison Cawein
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1:40 |
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"Ku Klux," Madison Cawein
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2:09 |
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"The Second Louisiana May 27,1863," George H. Boker
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3:27 |
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"To Canaan," Oliver Wendall Holmes
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2:54 |
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"The Hero of Fort Wagner," Phoebe Cary
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2:32 |
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"Bury Them--Wagner, July 18, 1863," Henry Howard Brownell
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2:34 |
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"Whether White or Black, A Man," Edith Smith Davis
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6:37 |
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Ethiopian Maid," Walter Everette Hawkins
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1:34 |
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"Mat," D. Webster Davis
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2:03 |
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"Belgium," Lester B. Granger
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2:02 |
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"Laus Deo," John Greenleaf Whittier
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2:21 |
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"O Black and Unknown Bards," James Weldon Johnson
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3:23 |
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"The Young Warrior," E. Stoutenburg
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3:42 |
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"Mine Eyes Have Seen," Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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16:27 |
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"Winter Morning," Alexander Poushkin
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1:50 |
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"Winter Evening," Alexander Poushkin
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1:54 |
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"Friendship," Alexander Poushkin
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0:33 |
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"The Bard," Alexander Poushkin
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1:04 |
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"Frederick Douglass," Charles H. Chipman
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8:21 |
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"A Negro's Rebuke," Rosco Conkling Simmons
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2:47 |
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"Ask Our Constitutional Rights Now," Clayton Powell
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5:57 |
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"The Fourth of July," Frederick Douglass
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8:24 |
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"Lincoln and Douglass," Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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10:08 |
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"The Better Part," Booker T. Washington
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6:24 |
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"After Emancipation--Suffrage," Thaddeus Stevens
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4:42 |
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"Memorial Day in the South," "Jack Thorne" (David B. Fulton)
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6:46 |
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"Toussaint L'Ouverture," Wendell Phillips
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5:33 |
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"Abraham Lincoln," Frederick Douglass
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12:14 |
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"Fort Wagner," Anna E. Dickinson
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5:35 |
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"The Boys of Howard School," Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
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4:31 |
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"The Mulatto to His Critics," Joseph S. Cotter, Jr
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1:05 |
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"Negro Music," Emmett J. Scott
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4:14 |
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"Crispus Attucks," George L. Ruffin
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5:02 |
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"Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863," Abraham Lincoln
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4:50 |
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"To the Negro Farmers of the United States," Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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1:29 |
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"Toussaint L'Ouverture," William Wordsworth
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1:18 |
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"Toussaint L'Ouverture," John G. Whittier
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10:41 |
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"Chalmette, Memorial Day," Alice Ruth Moore
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3:42 |
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"His Excellency, George Washington, 1775," Phyllis Wheatley
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2:59 |
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"Abraham Lincoln," David B. Fulton (Jack Thorne)
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4:01 |
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"Charles Sumner," Charlotte Forten Grimke
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2:26 |
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"Crispus Attucks," Rev. George C. Rowe
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3:13 |
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"Nat Turner," T. Thomas Fortune
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2:22 |
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"Emancipation," D. Webster Davis
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6:38 |
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"Fifty Years," James Weldon Johnson
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4:54 |
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"Booker T. Washington," John Riley Dungee
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2:29 |
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"Booker T. Washington," Theodore Roosevelt
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3:02 |
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