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Charles Sumner: “Pleading for the Equal Rights of All, he became a victim and martyr.”

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Pleading for the Equal Rights of All, he became a victim and martyr.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner commemorates a colleague who fought for equal rights and became a martyr.

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