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FULL EVENT: Speaker Mike Johnson Dedicates Frederick Douglass Press Gallery in U.S. Capitol | AC15

Published | Video Starts at 10:52

I can't say enough about the efforts to remember our great history. And Frederick Douglass is a little piece of it that our kids need to see and hear. I am personally blessed to have been raised in the 60s of segregation, KKK, Jim Crow, and segregation. but also was raised by a generation of men and women who understood what Frederick Douglass did, what Booker T. (10:52–11:00)

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