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Marion, where he almost died, presented him with a key to the city.
At the time of his death, he was negotiating a movie deal on the story of his life and had signed the contract the day before he died, said his son Virgil Cameron.
He 'never became bitter'
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Years later, Cameron went back to Marion and interviewed witnesses.
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Singer and Mary Carter, a retired middle school social studies teacher, were in Oyster Bay to speak to the kids -- part of a quest to develop a public school curriculum guide focusing on slavery's impact in the northern U.S., specifically New York.
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"Many people are surprised when you talk about slavery's existence in New York," Carter said."They're surprised because it's taught as something that happened in the South."
In three separate sessions with Oyster Bay students in grades 7-12, Singer and Carter sought to impart that it is important for them to know about the role slavery played in U.S. history.