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African American Trailblazer Harvey Gantt Addresses Democratic National Convention

Posted September 6th, 2012 at 5:55 pm (UTC-5)
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Before U.S. President Barack Obama speaks Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, delegates and viewers heard from a man who once inspired him — the city’s first African-American mayor Harvey Gantt. Born in South Carolina in 1943, Gantt became the first African American admitted to an all-white college in the […]

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