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		<title>Cincinnati is Part of the Tuskegee Airmen Legacy</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2012/01/cincinnati-part-tuskegee-airmen-legacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mildred Fallen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that Cincinnati is home to one of 45 Tuskegee Airmen chapters in the U.S., and includes 18 members whom are considered “original” Airmen? The Greater Cincinnati Airmen, Inc. was founded in 1986 by Charles O. Southern. Its members come from many diverse professions but share in common an interest to preserve the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with David Blight (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/interview-david-blight-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil War 150]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author David Blight will lecture at the Freedom Center on December 8 at 6:30 pm on two of his books, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory and Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory and the American Civil War. Blight is a professor of American History at Yale University, is Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with David Blight (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/interview-david-blight-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/interview-david-blight-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author David Blight will lecture at the Freedom Center on December 8 at 6:30 pm on two of his books, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory and Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory and the American Civil War. Blight is a professor of American History at Yale University, is Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Rosa</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/remembering-rosa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the anniversary of the first full day of the Birmingham Bus Boycott in 1955. On December 1 of that year, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, prompting her arrest and sparking the boycott that helped to fuel the growing Civil Rights movement. Arrests and violent confrontations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columbus Day 2011: Still Reaping the Benefits of Enslavement</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/10/columbus-day-2011-reaping-benefits-enslavement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I had the distinct pleasure of giving a tour of the Freedom Center to a group of international visitors that was comprised of representatives of four different continents; Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America. As we were discussing issues of enslavement at the Anderson slave pen, one of our distinguished guests from Chile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth: One of the Nation&#8217;s Most Courageous Freedom Fighters</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/10/rev-fred-shuttlesworth-nations-courageous-freedom-fighters/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/10/rev-fred-shuttlesworth-nations-courageous-freedom-fighters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6586</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was bombed, beaten and repeatedly arrested in the fight for civil rights and hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and energy, died this morning at the age of 89. He survived a 1956 bombing, an assault during a 1957 demonstration, chest injuries when Birmingham [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell Ends</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/dont-dont-ends/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/dont-dont-ends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6443</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official &#8211; the era of Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell is over. President Obama marked the day in a written statement: Patriotic Americans in uniform will no longer have to lie about who they are in order to serve the country they love. Our armed forces will no longer lose the extraordinary skills and combat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emancipation before Emancipation???</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/08/emancipation-emancipation/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/08/emancipation-emancipation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil War 150]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a big day yesterday, historically speaking. August 30 is the anniversary of the Senate’s confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to become the nation’s first African American Supreme Court Justice, marking another breakthrough in the continuing struggle for civil rights and equality among all people. But it took over a century from the first emancipation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A House Divided or a House United?</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/07/house-divided-house-united/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/07/house-divided-house-united/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil War 150]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=5859</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On a recent trip to Memphis, Tennessee I was able to experience one of the most powerful feelings a person can have with regards to a museum visit. At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, I had one of those experiences that most people would only describe from a religious pilgrimage. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Freedom’s Heroes: Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/06/remembering-freedoms-heroes-michael-schwerner-andrew-goodman-james-chaney/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/06/remembering-freedoms-heroes-michael-schwerner-andrew-goodman-james-chaney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=5539</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On this day in 1964 Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney were killed by a Ku Klux Klan lynch mob near Meridian, Mississippi. The three young civil rights workers were working to register black voters in Mississippi. Let us always remember these young men, these civil rights heroes and the courage they had in [...]]]></description>
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