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Georgia S. Davison
@ghlsd
Beatrice Webb said her intellectual rigor forged the future for a generation of young women.42
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Everyone Is Created Equal, but They Aren’t Always Treated Equally
Willis Johnson • Junk to Gold: From Salvage to the World’S Largest Online Auto Auction
As with any great teacher, one can find the strongest evidence of Perry’s legacy in the success of his students: they became legislators, scholars, and businessmen. (CSB was coed, but Perry focused his efforts almost entirely on his male students; while he was ahead of his time in his thinking on disability, his views on gender were, unfortunately,
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Kirk Mead
@luciusclay
Truman’s integration of the armed forces in 1948,
David Treuer • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
Leslie
@leslie
Incredibly hard-working, incredibly loyal—dedicated, faceless—they were already becoming recognized by public officials as an elite cadre within the ranks of the state’s civil servants and had already been given the name “Moses Men.”