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Civil rights activism, socialist activism, English teaching
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American military personnel of the Spanish–American War
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Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1914).
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Knight, Lucian Lamar (1978). "Kerlin, Robert Thomas".
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524:The Cumberland News
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