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Time Periods and Events

Black Lives Matter poster

Letterpress on board

June 1, 2020

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Fair Housing Pledge

Newspaper article

November 16, 1965

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Manumission papers Matilda Ann Weaver, 1835

Document

November 3, 1835

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Spring Hill in Days of Slavery

Newspaper article

May 22, 2003

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Black leaders, mayor confer on problems

Newspaper article

May 22, 2022

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Manumission papers Samuel Fuller, 1835

Document

November 7, 1835

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Missing History of Massillon: Unheard African American Stories

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