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At a Civil War battlefield in Mississippi, there’s a new effort to include more Black history

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history.As a small Black girl, she would walk to...

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