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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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Massasoit Guards: The Black Militia That Protected Boston’s Black Community From Slave Catchers in the 1850s

The Massasoit Guards were an African American militia company founded in Boston in 1854 to help protect the city’s...