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Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

Carter G. Woodson

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Carter G. Woodson
Age: 74 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 19
Died: 1950
Died: April 3
Historian
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Carter G. Woodson
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