Ms. Beecher recalls standing-room only crowds at DACA workshops held by the organization last year, but said a recent event attracted fewer than 30.

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"Their parents are saying you might as well wait for immigration reform, " said Josefina Beecher, a member of the board of the Skagit Immigrant Rights Council in Mount Vernon, Wash.

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Where are the monumental public works, the great public spaces, dedicated to the likes of Emerson and Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Thurber and James Baldwin?

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Turner also notes that the song makes an appearance in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which came to be embraced by abolitionist forces as an indictment of plantation life and slavery.

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Pre-eminent among these was Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Mentions Lieutenant Colonel Henry Beecher.

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