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Heavyweight boxing champion and American hero, Joe Louis Barrow, the "Brown Bomber," was born in 1914 in Lafayette, Alabama.

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POSTED: August 27, 2013, 2:30 pm

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The Circle of Hope video team talks to civil rights veteran Dick Gregory and Martin Luther King, III during the events marking the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington.





Source: The Circle of Hope

Videographers: Jamal Spratley and Korey Brady

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