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BOLD VISION. SMART POLICY. THE COURAGE TO ACT.

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Patrick D. Jones

Patrick D. Jones is an Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Friday, November 10, 2017
Expanding the Circle of Honor on Veterans Day
On this Veterans Day, I’d like to make a modest proposal that we expand the circle of honor in our society beyond military veterans to include veterans of the 1960s black freedom movement. As a scholar of the civil rights era, I have had the privilege to meet, hear, speak with and study hundreds of...
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