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Alma Adams: “Let me just remind you that, prior to 1976, for the previous 100 years, from 1876, it was just the reverse.”

On the recordOctober 5, 2021
Let me just remind you that, prior to 1976, for the previous 100 years, from 1876, it was just the reverse.
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Alma Adams
Democratic · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Highlighting historical gender disparities in Black college enrollment.

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