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A conversation with Professor Emeritus Richard Blackett of Vanderbuilt University about the connection between the abolitionist and civil rights movement

A conversation with Professor Emeritus Richard Blackett of Vanderbuilt University about the connection between the abolitionist and civil rights movement

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"Most people believe that the abolitionist movement ended with the Civil War but that is not true," says Professor Richard Blackett of Vanderbilt University who shares his thoughts on the modern civil rights movement as well as details about Samuel Ringold Ward, an obscure but important 19th-century labor leader and abolitionist whom he just published a book about.




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