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- Further Reading: Related Books and Websites
- Interview: Bernardo Ruiz
- Interview: Orlando Cepeda
- Primary Resources: MVP
- Interview: His Family and His Legacy
- Primary Resources: 3,000th Hit
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Born in Puerto Rico, Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change. He would die in a tragic plane crash.
Stephen Foster
America's first great songwriter, Stephen Foster, wrote 200 songs but died a penniless alcoholic at 37.
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New Orleans
From Reconstruction to the 1960s, this film offers a portrait of New Orleans that reflects the best and the worst in America.
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A Family Gathering
The personal journey of three generations of a Japanese American family, including their stint in internment camps during World War II.
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Scandalous Mayor
James Michael Curley and his sophisticated political machine dominated Boston for almost half a century.
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Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
A personal story of one family's dramatic effort to hold onto their family farm in Iowa as massive foreclosures sweep the nation in the 1990s.
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Soundtrack for a Revolution
The story of the American civil rights movement is told through its powerful music -- the freedom songs that protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, in police wagons, and in jail cells as they fought for justice and equality.
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The Fight
A man who symbolized African American equality fought a proponent of Hitler's Aryan racial theories on the eve of World War II.
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The Wizard of Photography
George Eastman introduced the Kodak and Brownie camera systems and transformed photography into something anybody could do.
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