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Different Voices
The story is narrative nonfiction describing what might have been said during the encounters at the children’s civil rights march for desegregation in Birmingham, Ala.
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Freedom's Main Line
One of the earliest assaults on segregated transit in the South occurred in Louisville, Ky., in 1870-71. There, the city’s black community organized a successful protest that relied on nonviolent direct action, a tactic that would give shape to the modern civil rights movement nearly a century later.
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Going to Bat for Girls
School athletics in Nebraska is radically altered after a mother’s court fight for equal treatment for high school female athletes.
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Who Claims Me?
In Boston, widely regarded as the center of the abolitionist movement, black leaders called on citizens to resist the newly passed Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 in order “to make Massachusetts a battlefield in defense of liberty.”
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14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that all people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the state where they reside.
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What Is a Sanctuary City Anyway?
Naomi Tsu, an attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, answers questions about sanctuary cities.
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In the City of Brotherly Love
“The Irish and the English share a long legacy of conflict.” And this conflict extended across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World as a wave of Catholic immigrants arrived in the United States in the 1820s.
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Deaf Culture: Changes and Challenges
In his essay, Bacon provides some high-level insights into the past of America’s deaf, as well as the current culture and some potential challenges that lie ahead.
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Gloria and Rosa Make Beautiful Music

Two friends who attend different schools in the same community learn that one of their schools has no instruments for their music program, while the other has multiple different kinds. They use their friendship and musical abilities to confront this inequity and try to bring about change.