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by Genetta M. Adams onApril 8, 2013
He stumped for Nixon? There are plenty of surprises about the man who integrated Major League Baseball.
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January 8, 2013
As we count down the days to a second term, a look at his record on the controversial battle.
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by Hillary Crosley onOctober 21, 2012
The former senator helped open the Democratic party to African Americans, leaving a strong legacy.
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by Jack White onAugust 19, 2011
RightWatch: In the 1960s, Alabama Gov. George Wallace whipped up white opposition to civil rights advances. Is the Tea Party déjà vu all over again?
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Fifteen years after 37th U.S. President Richard Nixon passed away, thousands of papers and over 150 hours of tapes from Nixon's oval office—made between January and February 1973—have been dumped, via the National Archives, into the American collective consciousness. (Check the audio files and some documents here). And as you would expect, they're quite the epilogue....
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