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  1. John Brown
    "Address of John Brown to the Virginia Court, when about to receive the Sentence of Death." Boston: C. C. Mead [ca. 1859]
    Printed Ephemera Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division (3-6)
  2. Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson, and Mark Martin stage sit-down strike after being refused service at an F.W. Woolworth luncheon counter, Greensboro, N.C. 1960 Copyprint.
    New York World-Telegram & Sun
    Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division.
    Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-114749 (9-9)
    Courtesy of CORBIS
  3. Sojourner Truth, seated. Carte de visite, 1864
    Gladstone Collection, Prints and Photographs Division
    (Reproduction #: LC-USZC4-6165)
    (3-11b)
  4. John Quincy Adams
    Draft of Brief Delivered before the U. S. Supreme Court in defense of the Amistad Africans, 1841
    Holograph draft
    Tappan Papers, Manuscript Division (1-12)

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