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Article: Justice for all: one hundred years ago this summer, a band of men and women gathered at Harpers Ferry to launch America's civil rights movement.
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- June 22, 2006
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In 1747, when Robert Harper first came upon the confluence of rivers and mountains that would one day bear his name, his slave Beck was the first black woman to set foot on the land. Fifty years later, enslaved African Americans helped build the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, then provided labor for the machinery that turned out rifles and muskets for the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War. In 1859, the same small town in Virginia (now West Virginia) was the site of John Brown's uprising--an event that failed to end the institution of slavery, but cast a light on the injustice, sowing the seeds of the Civil War.
So in 1906, when ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Du Bois, W. E. B.
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature;
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... ... American of the age, brought Du Bois to controversial prominence ... and artists in America. Du Bois's growing dissatisfaction ... about the martyr of Harpers Ferry, that underscored his ... magazine, the Crisis . Du Bois quickly made the journal ...
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