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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, in the case of nine-year old Chinese-American Martha Lum, her exclusion on account of race from school was justified.
Themes: Asian American, Democracy & Citizenship, Education
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A Boston judge stopped the extradition of George Latimer, who had escaped enslavement in Virginia, and allowed him to raise funds for his own manumission.
Themes: Laws & Citizen Rights, Slavery and Resistance
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Native Americans took over and held Alcatraz Island as Indian Land during the Alcatraz Occupation.
Themes: Native American
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The state of Utah executed Joe Hill, labor organizer, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Themes: Labor
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President William Howard Taft ordered U.S. warships to Nicaragua to defend U.S. corporate profits.
Themes: Imperialism, Latinx, US Foreign Policy
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The Albany Movement engaged multiple civil rights organizations and students in the fight for desegregation and voting rights.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship
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Six Jesuit scholars/priests and two staff members were murdered by the U.S. backed military in El Salvador.
Themes: US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements, World History/Global Studies
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The second anti-war Moratorium occurred with over 500,000 marching in D.C. and demonstrations throughout the country and the world.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Twenty women were subjected to beatings and torture at Occoquan Workhouse, a prison in Virginia, in what became known as the “Night of Terror.”
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Women's History
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The Battle of Ia Drang began between regulars of the United States Army and regulars of the People's Army of Vietnam.
Themes: US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements, World History/Global Studies
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Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly began a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.
Themes: Labor, Media, Women's History
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SCOTUS ruled 9-0 that redrawing city boundaries in Tuskegee, Alabama to exclude African-American voters violates the 15th Amendment.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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Mrs. White of the Indiana Textbook Commission called for a ban of Robin Hood in all school books for promoting communism.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Education, Organizing
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A group of students were suspended at Southwest Texas State University for peacefully protesting the Vietnam War.
Themes: Latinx, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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A disaster in the Cherry Mine in Cherry, Illinois, killed 259 boys and men.
Themes: Environment, Labor
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After 10 years of organizing and protesting, the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation of Arizona won the struggle when Interior Secretary James Watt announced that Orme Dam would not be built.
Themes: Climate Justice, Environment, Native American
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U.S. armed Indonesian troops fired on peaceful procession in East Timor, 270+ killed.
Themes: US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements, World History/Global Studies
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On Veterans Day, we share a collection of stories about African American veterans who fought in various wars and upon their return to the U.S., were murdered in the fight for democracy and human rights. We also share resources for teaching about the veterans who speak out against war.
Themes: African American, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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The Ogoni Nine were executed by the Nigerian military government for campaigning against the devastation of their homeland by oil companies.
Themes: Climate Justice, Environment, World History/Global Studies
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The interracial, elected Reconstruction era local government was deposed in a coup d’etat in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Themes: African American, Reconstruction, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights
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