Alexander Clark and an African-American’s Fight for Civil Rights | Video Gallery

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Alexander Clark and an African-American’s Fight for Civil Rights | Video Gallery

After winning the first successful school desegregation case in the history of the United States in 1867, Iowa businessman Alexander Clark received his law degree, ran a newspaper in Chicago, and became the United States Ambassador to Liberia.
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