The Old News Blog
Meet Anna Murray-Douglass, the woman who married Frederick Douglass and helped him escape from slavery to become the civil rights leader we all know today.
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On July 11th, 1804, Alexander Hamilton was shot by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel. He died the next day surrounded by family and friends.
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Frederick Douglass’s “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” speech.
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Shocking photographs from the catastrophic flood of 1889.
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1923: Disney is founded. Oh boy! Walt Disney and his bother, Roy, found the Disney Brothers Carton Studio. 1916: Margaret Sanger, an activist whose organizations would evolve into Planned Parenthood, opens the nation's first family planning clinic in Brooklyn.. 10...
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