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A prominent civil rights leader, the Rev. Al Sharpton, traveled Monday to the birthplace of pro-segregation U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond to visit the grave of a Thurmond relative who held one of Sharpton s ancestors as a slave.Sharpton s trip to this rural town also included a visit to a cemetery where slaves are buried in graves marked only by small stones. He urged all blacks to explore their histories despite the ugly things it might reveal. The civil rights leader recently learned of his family s link to that of Thurmond,
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