| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - To the contrary, many of Washington's African American elites of the 1860s and 1870s were committed to race-based activism.[7] For instance, during the Civil War, a number of elite black women--including Elizabeth Keckley, the seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln--helped organize a freedmen's relief organization to distribute food and other supplies to poor ex-slaves.
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