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Martin Luther King Day 2013

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It is as a deeply divided nation that we prepare to celebrate President Obama''s second inauguration. 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.

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Martin Luther King Day 2015

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It is as a deeply divided nation that we prepare to celebrate President Obama''s second inauguration. 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.

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