Imagine how American civil rights history could easily be different if saner heads had not prevailed; if courageous Americans had not risked everything to speak out, and if constitutional rights were not recognized or enforced.
1945: Democratic vice president Henry Wallace, an avowed democratic socialist, becomes president after the sudden death of Frank…
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