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Not Always So Progressive: Early Seattle Mayor Was An Avowed White Supremacist

Jeannie Yandel talks with Crosscut's Knute Berger about his article on Beriah Brown, a mover and shaker in early Seattle who also had a long body of work underlining his pro-slavery, white supremacist beliefs.

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