Newsmaker / First Lady Cheers On Graduates
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › May 10, 2010
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PINE BLUFF, Ark. - Michelle Obama told graduates Saturday to prepare to overcome adversity, building on Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1958 commencement address at the same university, when he told students to summon their courage to fight segregation.
The first lady gave an impassioned speech to 270 graduates of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff that referenced the legacy of their historically black school, which opened in 1873 with seven students, most of whom could barely read.See the full content of this document
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Newsmaker / First Lady Cheers On Graduates
Obama said those first students, only a decade removed from slavery, had no g...
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