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Thursday, October 17, 2024

Alabama U.S. Rep Terri A. Sewell: "This morning I welcomed @SenatorWarnock to Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery..."

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Terri A. Sewell tweeted the following:

"This morning I welcomed @SenatorWarnock to Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery for Black History Month! Thank you so much for coming Senator and pouring into these young people on this auspicious occasion, they are our present and our future."
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Here are other recent tweets from Terri A. Sewell:

"She later became one of the first Black students to integrate her junior high school, enduring threats & harassment from classmates. While the nation knows her as a pioneering activist, I am proud to call her my former baby-sitter, mentor, & lifelong friend. #BlackHistoryMonth"
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"In January 1965, 8 year-old Sheyann Webb made her way into Brown Chapel AME Church for a mass meeting where she would soon become one of the youngest Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement and bravely march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday."
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"Olympian Jesse Owens was recognized in his lifetime as perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history. He won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, but his greatest triumph was shattering Hitlers myth of white supremacy. #BlackhistoryMonth" on Feb. 11
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