Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black peopl…

Henry Louis Gates
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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. ✨ Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Tavis Smiley show, www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.
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