Tag: Black education
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David Ruggles, an abolitionist and the founder of the first Black-owned bookstore, played a vital role in the Underground Railroad and Black activism.
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Discover how Walter Moses Burton became America’s first Black sheriff in 1869 and fought for Black education as a Texas state senator, breaking racial barriers along the way.
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