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[Students shake hands with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. outside of Glenville High School, in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1967 following an address...

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[Dred Scott (pictured above) sued for his emancipation and was denied based on his classification as a subhuman species by the U.S....