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Interview with Bryan Stevenson: On Juneteenth and Justice

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Stevenson is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School and started EJI to dedicate his life to fighting the unequal treatment of marginalized communities. Mr. Hinton spent almost 30 years on death row in Alabama. When we teach history in the United States, we often skip the parts that are not so wonderful.

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Martin Luther King Day 2015

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Fifty years ago in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the rest of the old South, Blacks could not drink from "whites only" water fountains, could not sit at "whites only" lunch counters or swim at "whites only" public swimming pools. It is the true meaning of our creed that teaches us how to get along.

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Martin Luther King Day 2013

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Fifty years ago in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the rest of the old South, Blacks could not drink from "whites only" water fountains, could not sit at "whites only" lunch counters or swim at "whites only" public swimming pools. It is the true meaning of our creed that teaches us how to get along.

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