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Meet Mary Pleasant
2008-11-02T23:00:00
Meet Mary Pleasant
Meet Mary Pleasant
WHERE: Broadcast on Rhode Island PBS
WHEN: 11:00 pm
Meet Mary Pleasant, the 19th-century African American woman born a slave who became an international abolitionist, a prosperous entrepreneur, and a civil-rights activist who helped alter modern-day civil rights law. Now called the “Mother of Civil Rights” in California, Pleasant--as activist and individual--was that and much more.
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