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I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Age: 57 †
Born: 1896
Born: August 8
Died: 1953
Died: December 14
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