July 8, 2014
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'What Has Happened to America?'
Klan groups frequently leave pamphlets on doorsteps and parked cars to spread their message of hate. A group calling itself the Bristol Knights distributed a flier in white Connecticut neighborhoods in the 1980s.
April 28, 2016
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StoryCorps: My Father Worked in a Chocolate Factory
“My father went to work in a chocolate factory. When he'd come home, his hair was all full of chocolate; his pillows were all brown.”
July 8, 2014
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Flint Sit-Down Strike
Between December 1936 and February 1937, auto industry laborers in Flint, Mich., stopped working and occupied the GM factories that employed them until their right to unionize was recognized.
July 9, 2014
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Women’s Suffrage
This lesson is the fourth in a series called Expanding Voting Rights. The overall goal of the series is for students to explore the complicated history of voting rights in the United States. Two characteristics of that history stand out: First, in fits and starts, more and more Americans have gained the right to vote. Second, over time, the federal government's role in securing these rights has expanded considerably.
February 10, 2014
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom World War II and Post War (1940–1949)
This excerpt is part of a larger exhibition from the Library of Congress. This excerpt demonstrates the ways World War II and the Cold War informed President Roosevelt’s and President Truman’s decisions to pursue civil rights legislation.
July 18, 2022
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StoryCorps: She Kissed Me on the Cheek
“The next day, the police car pulled up and they said, 'We're taking y'all to jail.'”
July 8, 2014
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StoryCorps: Stonewall Riots
“The lights went up, the music went off, and you could hear a pin drop.”
July 8, 2014
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StoryCorps: We Were Caught
“The only way that I could see out of that situation was to take my life.”
July 8, 2014