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NYC's black churches lead fight for racial equality

It was 1963, a time when Civil Rights protests were gaining steam throughout the nation. In a corner of Brooklyn, demonstrators gathered at the Downstate Medical Center, to demand employment in the building trades unions. Over a two-week period some 700 protesters were marched off to jail.

In New York City, the struggle for racial equality had been going on for at least a generation as African-Americans...

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