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The raid took place more than 160 years ago and is thought of as one of the events that precipitated the Civil War.
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Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe Niagara Movement—an important civil rights group—held its first public meeting at Harpers Ferry’s Storer College on August 15, 1906.The movement…
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