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Lloyd L. Gaines: The Student Who Mysteriously Vanished After Winning a Segregation Case Against the University of Missouri

Lloyd Lionel Gaines was a civil rights pioneer who sued the University of Missouri for denying him admission to its law school solely because he was African American. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor, mandating that Missouri...
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Dorcas Allen: The Enslaved Mother Who Killed Her Children to Protect Them from Slavery

Dorcas Allen was an enslaved African woman who killed her two youngest children in an Alexandria slave pen in...