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10/19:

Cassius Marcellus Clay, an anti-slavery activist, and politician was born (1810-1903). Clay, a White southern aristocrat turned anti-slavery activist in Kentucky, liberated his own slaves and published an anti-slavery newspaper, True American. He prodded Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, though it is said he was critical of the post-Civil War policy of Reconstruction. Berea College, built-in 1855 on land donated by Clay, was the first interracial, coeducational college in the South….