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Wiley Griffon with his streetcar

... that Wiley Griffon (pictured with streetcar) became the first streetcar operator in Eugene, Oregon, despite Black settlers being outlawed in the state?
... that Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech "The Other America" is thought to have been influenced by a post-Keynesian economist and a democratic socialist?
... that Dorothy Homer declared her library was "dedicated to the principles of Democracy which cherish books while Dictatorships burn them"?
... that a 2004 ballot measure to repeal Jim Crow laws in Alabama failed after opponents claimed that taxes would spike?
... that Ira L. Cooper was the first African-American detective in St. Louis?
... that an owner of a Chicago radio station attempted to destroy records of a documentary covering a race riot?
... that Quaker abolitionist John Vickers hid fugitive slaves in the kiln where he made pottery?
... that both The Artist & The Pervert and Black Exhibition are described as significant works in the academic study of race and BDSM?
... that more than 90 percent of Connecticut voters in 1876 agreed to repeal the requirement of being white to vote?