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"Bowie State Commencement Speech" is the speech Michelle Obama delivered to the Bowie State graduating class of May, 2013. She expressed the need of African Americans to be “hungry” in getting an education to improve themselves and the country. She pointed out that the graduates of Bowie State University have an obligation to fulfill. She used a quote from Frederick Douglass “Education means emancipation.” The fact that it was illegal for an African American to be educated was an obstacle that had to be overcome. So, after the Emancipation Proclamation in the 1860’s, Bowie State was founded to train African Americans as teachers to educate others so they could also be empowered. Then desperately poor communities raised money and built schools
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