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We are African in origin and American in birth.

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Timothy Thomas Fortune
Age: 71 †
Born: 1856
Born: October 3
Died: 1928
Died: June 2
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Journalist
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Marianna
Florida
T. Thomas Fortune
Origin
African
Birth
American

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Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion it shows that society is rotten to the core.
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