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“Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Probably not this one.”

Fifth grader Yael Gustafson was recently featured in the Chicago Sun-Times for winning first place in the U.S. National Park Service’s annual oratorical contest in Washington D.C. by reciting a speech by the abolitionist Frederick Douglass entirely from memory!

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