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#1: Composite image of early photo of Rodney Slater and still frame from Pryor Center video interview
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#2: Rodney Slater, two years old
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#3: School photo of Rodney Slater, six years old
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#4: School photo of Rodney Slater, seven years old
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#5: School photo of Rodney Slater, eight years old
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#6: School photo of Rodney Slater, eleven years old
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#7: High school football photo of Rodney Slater
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#8: College photo of Rodney Slater
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#9: Rodney Slater in #2 Eastern Michigan University football uniform
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#10: Rodney Slater, Razorback yearbook, 1979
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#11: Law school photo of Rodney Slater
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#12: Rodney Slater with his wife, Cassandra, and their baby daughter
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#13: Rodney Slater with his wife, Cassandra, and their daughter
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#14: Rodney Slater taking the oath of office with his wife, daughter, and President Bill Clinton in the Oval Office
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#15: Formal photo of Rodney Slater
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#16: Rodney Slater and his family with the Clintons
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#17: Rodney Slater with his wife, daughter, and President Clinton on Air Force One
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#18: Rodney Slater with Rosa Parks, his daughter, Bridgette, and wife, Cassandra, at Christmas
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#19: Rodney Slater walking past the Color Guard at attention
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#20: Rodney Slater speaking on the steps of the Capitol
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#21: Rodney Slater with his daughter
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#22: Rodney Slater with his wife, Cassandra, and their daughter in the mountains
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#23: Rodney Slater with his daughter and wife on horseback
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#24: Rodney Slater with President Bill Clinton in the Oval Office
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#25: Rodney Slater with President Bill Clinton aboard Air Force One
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#26: Rodney Slater aboard an airplane with Vice President Al Gore
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#27: Rodney Slater at a Cabinet meeting with President Bill Clinton
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#28: Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rodney Slater on a plane en route to Zimbabwe
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#29: Rodney Slater greeting Nelson Mandela; Rev. Jesse Jackson is to the right of Mandela
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#30: Rodney Slater and George Haley on the tarmac with Air Force One in the background
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#31: Rodney Slater (left), Dexter Scott King, Vice President Al Gore, and Coretta Scott King on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 1998
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#32: Rodney Slater (left) with Bill Clinton (right) and Rosa Parks (2nd from right)
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#33: Rodney Slater at a Selma, Alabama, remembrance event
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#34: Rodney Slater exiting Air Force One with President Bill Clinton, Richard Riley, and Mack McLarty
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#35: Rodney Slater with a young boy in school
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#36: Rodney Slater with Colin Powell (center) at the Department of Transportation
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#37: Rodney Slater with President Bill Clinton in front of the White House
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#38: Rodney Slater with President Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Donna Shalala, Alexis Herman, Aida Alvarez
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#39: Rodney Slater with Vice President Al Gore during a speech on moving people from welfare to work
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#40: Rodney Slater with President Bill Clinton shooting basketball in a gymnasium
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#41: Rodney Slater with President Bill Clinton
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#42: Rodney Slater with Walter Cronkite and Paul Begala (far right)
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#43: Rodney Slater sitting at "Door of No Return" on Goree Island, Senegal
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#44: Rodney Slater with Chelsea and Bill Clinton during the presidential campaign, Arkansas
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#45: Rodney Slater with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
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#46: Rodney Slater with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Maryland Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend at the Millennium Trails Event, 1998
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#47: Rodney Slater with Hillary Rodham Clinton
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#48: Silas Hunt Legacy Award portrait of Rodney Slater. 2006
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#49: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Rodney Slater; Washington, DC, 2006
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