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		<title>Texas Secedes!</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2012/02/texas-secedes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Isett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil War 150]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=7370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[February 1st, 1861, was a momentous and ultimately ill-fated day for the great state of Texas. On this day, the state convention was reluctantly called by Governor Sam Houston, a Texan military hero who had led the battle that gained Texas her independence. It voted all but unanimously to secede from the Union. The slave-owning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Blight to Lecture on the Civil War Legacy December 8</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/dr-david-blight-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mildred Fallen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6884</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6928</guid>
		<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>What can Occupy Teach Us about History???</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/10/occupy-teach-history/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/10/occupy-teach-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the goals of Occupy is to try and bring an end to the 1% influencing politics through their exorbitant wealth. The fear is that this tier of people has created an elite government of special interests geared toward the too big to fail business interests while ignoring the real needs of the country. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of&#8230; MUSIC!</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/10/power-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dina Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6624</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, a song was written for the Freedom Center and the music video would be shot using the Freedom Center, its exhibitions, and some of its staff. Really, what more could you ask for from an elevator ride?!?!?! Check out the inspirational quote from Mike Olano: "Being a Cincinnati native, this video strikes home with me. You guys did an amazing job incorporating all the historic and recognizable elements of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky and weaving them together using the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center as your stage...."]]></description>
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		<title>Viewing Emancipation Through the Proper Lens</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/viewing-emancipation-proper-lens/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/viewing-emancipation-proper-lens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Great Emancipator or blatant racist? As we sit in our comfortable armchair quarterback seats of choice, our society in the 21st century has the ability to piece together sound bytes and snippets of information in the name of making an “informed” decision about history and the people who made it. There is a problem with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underground Railroad Tours are Here!!!</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/08/underground-railroad-tours-2/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/08/underground-railroad-tours-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abolition]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for the cool crisp days of autumn, the Freedom Center presents a series of Underground Railroad tours that will take visitors to places that have special significance in Cincinnati&#8217;s years leading up to the Civil War. See the location where Salmon P. Chase used to practice law. Tour the house where Harriet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whose Rights Should be Ignored in South Carolina?</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/08/rights-south-carolina/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/08/rights-south-carolina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=6030</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union after Lincoln’s election in 1860. South Carolina was the sight of the first shots of the Civil War with the firing on Fort Sumter. Now, 150 years later, South Carolina is still leading the charge of agitating for their alleged rights to celebrate what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of&#8230; EDUCATION!</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/07/power-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/07/power-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dina Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=5687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is time that we re-recognize the importance of education. We must remind our young people that it is not only cool to be educated, it is essential. ]]></description>
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		<title>Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/06/juneteenth-celebration-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/06/juneteenth-celebration-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ally Yusuf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=5396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[American slavery is one of the vilest institutions in history.  It was a dehumanizing system that destroyed many lives and it is our responsibility to learn as much as we can about it so we can understand how we got where we are today.  Therefore, we are also inherently responsible in celebrating the end of [...]]]></description>
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