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Be Not Apart

Nobody
is hurt more
by segregation
than everybody whose
heads and hearts lack
knowledge of and esteem for:

Louis Armstrong,
Big Mama Thornton,
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Willy Mays,
Maya Angelou,
Sonny Rollins,
Toni Morrison,
Paul Robeson,
Duke Ellington,
Sister Rosetta Tharpe,
W.E.B.DuBois,
Rep.John Lewis, R.I.P.,
Aretha Franklin,
John Lee Hooker,
…

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