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Morgan’s famous testimony to Congress that character came before money or property.
Frank Partnoy • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
At the school, she talked about her own childhood and the barriers she’d had to overcome, how education had always provided her a path forward.
Barack Obama • A Promised Land
in 1971, while speaking at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Institute in New York City: “But you see now, baby, whether you have a Ph.D., D.D., or no D, we’re in this bag together. And whether you’re
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Hamer later pointed out that she had seen the officer earlier in the day while attempting to register.39 Yet he used his power as an agent of the state to remind the activists they were living in the Jim Crow South, with all of its insulting indignities that could quickly escalate to state-sanctioned violence. After forcing Hamer and her colleagues
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Congress passed the Equal Pay Act
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
being sterilized—and with little recourse to challenge the act.
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act