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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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Richard Mentor Johnson: The US Senator Who Lost His Seat for Loving an Enslaved Woman

Richard Mentor Johnson, a powerful U.S. senator from Kentucky who would later rise to the vice presidency, built a...