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The text is the 2006 reauthorization and amendment act of the Voting Rights Act.

Ela Bhatt was a pioneer in women’s empowerment and grassroots development. In addition to establishing the Self-Employed Women’s Association in India, Bhatt also founded India’s first women’s bank, Cooperative Bank of SEWA, and served as a member of the Parliament of India from 1986 to1989.

“The Ponca’s challenge of the U.S. government marked a turning point on the long path of Indian resistance. Increasingly, after Standing Bear v. Cook, the fight for Native rights would shift from the battlefields to the courtrooms of the growing nation.”

“In Kenya, a modern ‘Johnny Appleseed’ has initiated a successful program to counteract the alarming destruction of Africa’s forests.”

Written on September 17, 1787, the Preamble to the United States Constitution is a short introductory statement of the Constitution's guiding principles and fundamental purposes.

Abraham Lincoln delivered this famous speech at the dedication of the National Cemetary in Gettysburg, the burial site of Union Soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

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.

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.