February 1, 1865, the same day congress approved the 13th Amendment ending slavery, Charles Sumner introduced a motion that made Boston attorney John Rock the first black attorney to be admitted to...
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"If we had a whole wave of new leaders in the next five to seven years, black America would be a different place."
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