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Unknown civil rights hero paved the way for MLK

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I can’t believe Denzel Washington hasn’t played one particular early civil rights hero in a movie yet.

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Unknown civil rights hero paved the way for MLK

I can’t believe Denzel Washington hasn’t played one particular early civil rights hero in a movie yet.

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Unknown Civil Rights Hero Paved the Way for MLK

I can’t believe Denzel Washington hasn’t played one particular early civil rights hero in a movie yet. I also can’t believe how few people know about this unknown hero’s incredible accomplishments — achievements that paved the way for Martin Luther King Jr. and others to dismantle Jim Crow, the South’s legalized system of racial injustice. So respected was this great American that MLK Jr. delivered the invocation at his funeral, and Supreme Cour…

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