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November 20, 2021

Rev. Francis J. Grimke

November 20, 2021

Rev. Francis J. Grimke was a minister who was active in the fight against Jim Crow, for civil rights, and was a founding member of the NAACP. On this day in 1898, he gave a speech titled ‘The Negro Will Never Acquiesce As Long As He Lives”

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