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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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J. Marion Sims: The Surgeon Who Built the First Hospital for Black Women in the US to Exploit Their Bodies

J. Marion Sims was a 19th-century American physician who came to be celebrated as the “father of modern gynecology.”...