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Black people

The Elsberg Bill Signed

Mrs. Cisco’s activism brought attention to segregated schooling in New York, and the state adopted a new law that ended legal segregation in schools.

Cisco on Trial in Queens

Samuel B. Cisco, a Black man, lived in Jamaica, in Queens County.
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