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May 6, 1968
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March 15, 1965
Let Justice Roll Down
“Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
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December 21, 1964
The Free Speech Movement
When protester Jack Weinberg told a reporter, “Don’t trust anyone over 30,” the ’60s youth movement was born.
Gene Marine
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June 1, 1964
Fannie Lou Hamer: Tired of Being Sick and Tired
Speaking for every African-American living under the South’s Jim Crow rules, Fannie Lou Hamer says she is sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Jerry DeMuth
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March 5, 1949
The Berlin Airlift
While goods and supplies pour into Berlin from the air, the real question hovering over the city is whether there will be a war between the West and Russia.
Julio Álvarez del Vayo
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October 18, 1947
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October 11, 1947
Marshall Plan: Prosperity Is Indivisible
Socialist eastern Europe stands to be left out in the cold under the Marshall Plan.
Julio Álvarez del Vayo
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October 21, 1944
The Negro Waits to See
AS NOVEMBER approaches, the Presidential race seems to be too close for partisans of either side to take comfort.
Walter F. White
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January 18, 1933
Calvin Coolidge
That Silent Cal’s political success was largely the product of GOP mythmaking was hardly a secret, but in the Roaring Twenties hardly anyone cared.
Oswald Garrison Villard
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February 10, 1932