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By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

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Today In History

• In 1843 - Abolitionist and feminist Sojourner Truth begins antislavery crusade in the south
  
• In 1921 - Black Wall Street, one of the most influential all-Black communities in America was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by an angry white mob