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  Breaking Barriers: U.S. minority leaders
From the first Hispanic governor (in 1853) to the first African-American to be elected president, learn about how ethnic barriers have been broken in the United States through the years.

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  Martin Luther King Jr.
See the civil rights leader in speeches and marches from Alabama to Washington.

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  Black history quiz
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updated 6:18 a.m. ET Feb. 13, 2007

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N.Y. county calls for an end to use of racial slur

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