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Elizabeth Keckley, Thirty Years a Slave, Four Years in the White House

NNPA NEWSWIRE — In the book, “Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House,” Elizabeth Keckley, details her life as a slave who purchased her freedom and then worked in the White House for two U.S. first ladies – Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln, and Varina Davis, the wife of President Jefferson Davis.

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Sgt. Major Christian Fleetwood, Medal of Honor Recipient and Unsung Civil War Hero

NNPA NEWSWIRE — After graduating as class valedictorian from Pennsylvania’s Ashmun Institute – later renamed as Lincoln University – Sgt. Major Christian Fleetwood, Medal of Honor recipient in the American Civil War, started The Lyceum Observer, the first Black-owned newspaper south of the Mason-Dixon Line.

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