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Opal Lee, ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth,’ to get new home where racist mob drove her family away from 85 years ago

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“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.” A Frederick Douglass Reminder on this “Holiday”

Abolitionist, orator, author, and orator Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was born around February 1818 into slavery.  He delivered his first anti-slavery lecture in…