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While underfunded, Little Rock's black schools had a distinguished tradition, teaching black pride before the term existed and black history before there were any texts.
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The venerable, well-toured ensemble made roots-rock music decades before the term existed .
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Peter Cooper, a self-taught industrialist, inventor and social reformer, founded the college with the mission of making higher education available to all; it was among the first to admit blacks, women, students of any religion and those who could not pay, making it need-blind long before the term existed .
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The venerable, well-toured ensemble made roots-rock music decades before the term existed .
News 2011
Mountain Stage, recorded live in Charleston, W.V. Though often labeled as blues music, The Nighthawks' signature fusion of rock, jump jazz and roadhouse blues is recognizable as roots rock in its truest form - even though the band was making it decades before the term existed .
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Enron executives Kenneth Lay, Jeff Skilling and white collar crimes -- emblemized the bad side of the one percent before the term existed .
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"The High Desert region was a tea-party region before the term existed ," Johnson said.
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