NHD Project: William Lloyd Garrison

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For my NHD project, I chose William Lloyd Garrison to be my topic. I decided to have him as my topic because I found him suggested on the National History Day or NHD website. The reason I selected Garrison as my topic, in favor of the others, is because he played a big part in acquiring equal rights for women and African Americans. What interested me about him is that he was neither female nor of color and had all the rights he needed, but still he worked for the equal rights of others even though he would have benefited from them with the amount of rights they had then. He really stuck out to me because he stood up for the rights of others and not just himself. During my research, I found that Britannica School Online Encyclopedia was extremely

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