American Oz |
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L. Frank Baum’s long and winding road to Oz, and the Chicago World’s Fair that inspired his life’s work.
American Oz |
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The life and times of L. Frank Baum, creator of the beloved The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard |
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Black parents and children in Clarendon County, South Carolina risked everything to destroy legalized segregation.
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard |
Article
Remembering the WWII veteran beyond the vicious racist attack that blinded him.
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard |
Article
Before Brown v. Board of Education , there was Briggs v. Elliot —the case that launched Thurgood Marshall’s fight to end segregation in America’s schools.
Collection
History is alive. We are still living it. Let’s talk about it.
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In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind.
Film
The 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.
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Explore films, interviews, articles, image galleries and more for an in-depth look at notable female figures in American history.
The Vote |
Interactive
Celebrate the strategies and tactics of the movement in a new interactive experience.
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Explore the life of singer Marian Anderson and her triumphant 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial.
