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On February 10, 2016 in class we watch a movie on YouTube called a Great and Mighty Walk who was director by St. Clair Bource, narrator by Wesley Snipes but was author and told by historian John Henrik Clarke. A Great and Mighty Walk was about John Henrik Clarke was talking about his personal life and his interpretations on history of Africa and people of African descent.
John Henrik Clarke was born in 1915 in Alabama to a family who was sharecroppers. He went to a one room school, which was common for black school at that time. John Henrik Clarke teachers have saw that he was an intellect young man but was not showing his full intention. One day after school he went to his job starting to get suspect on why black people don’t have history.

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