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Exhibition Overview · Seeking to Tell a Story: From Slavery to Civil Rights · AUC Woodruff Library Digital ExhibitsIn this 150th anniversary year of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 50th anniversary year of the March on Washington, interest in black political activity during the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement is at a high point. What may not be included in these celebrations is the constant struggle, and triumphs, of African-Americans in the intervening years. As John Russworm and Samuel Cornish wrote in the first editorial published in Freedom’s Journal, "we seek to tell our own story because too many
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