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Jul 2024
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The Power of Encouraging Words To Save a...

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On this episode of Our American Stories, even though the working-class African-American community around Eric often couldn’t read or write, they could tell a story. To Eric, there was no honor higher than having the stories he would learn retold by the men around him.

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