Similarities Between Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, And Harriett Tubman

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I've chosen a topic that is not really talked about or taught fully in the school systems in society today. We have only learned a minimal of what they want us to know. We all have learned about Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, and Harriett Tubman in grade school. And we've learned that black people were slaves and sometimes heroes but they all had one thing in common they were suffering, but none were presented as conquerors scholars. This topic interests me because I want to learn more than what I read in a textbook, I want to learn my culture and heritage the right

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