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‘I shall never forget

that memorable night,

when in a distant

city
I waited and watched

at a public meeting,

with 3,000 others not

less anxious than

myself, for the word of

deliverance which

we have heard read today.

forget
Nor shall I ever

the outburst of joy

and thanksgiving that

rent the air
when the

lightning brought to us

the Emancipation

Proclamation.’

— Frederick
Douglass

‘The story of the African-American is not only the quintessential

American story but it’s really the story that continues to shape who

Bunch III,
we are today.’ – Lonnie G. secretary of the Smithsonian Institution