who served in World War I by combining this document with the True Sons of Freedom poster (Resource 24 in Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow).
ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE; POWER AND POLITICS; AMERICAN IDENTITY AND CITIZENSHIP
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endorse the NAACP at its founding in 1909 and helped found the Washington, D.C. branch. In 1940, she published her memoir, A Colored Woman in a White World.
Never one to be deterred, Mary remained politically active into her eighties. In 1946, she applied
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A suffrage poster with a multi-faceted view of womanhood that places men and women as equals, but still celebrates women as homemakers and caretakers.
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Union; and the life stories of Mary Church Terrell, Madam C.J. Walker, Ida B. Wells, and Maggie Walker.
IMMIGRATION, MIGRATION, AND SETTLEMENT; WORK, LABOR, AND ECONOMY; POWER AND POLITICS
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PGRpdiBjbGFzcz0iY29udGVudC1kaXZpZGVyIj48L2Rpdj4=The 1907 Gentleman’s Agreement between the United States and Japan severely limited the entry of Japanese immigrants into America. However, the federal government made an exception
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The story of a world-traveling investigative journalist who used her career to shed light on the horrors of urban life and break gender stereotypes.
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school insists she signed a five-year contract.
She has been in the Government schools since she was about five or six years old and she is pasted eighteen now and she wants to come home now and my-self I like to see her come home now. And that is the
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government established the ground rules for Southern states’ readmission to the Union, and federal troops kept order in the South. Black Americans gained freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote during these years. They also contended with fear, poverty
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Communist Party and her anti-war beliefs. She and her children remained under government surveillance for two decades.
By her 80s, Clara was living in a nursing home. She helped the staff form a union and encouraged people at the home to boycott certain
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study Chinese American history consider it to still be an important resource today.
bureaucracy: A set of systems of structures within a government or other large organization.
chronic: A permanent or ongoing condition.
fiction: Something that is
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