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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Stonewall and Its Impact on the Gay Liberation Movement

Environmental Preservation in the Progressive Era

Puerto Rican Migration to the U.S. 

Fannie Lou Hamer and the Civil Rights Movement in Rural Mississippi

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

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Chapman, Stephanie, Jessica Keener, Nicole Sobota, and Courtney Whitmore. Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps. Digital Public Library of America. July 2015. <a href="https://dp.la/exhibitions/japanese-internment">https://dp.la/exhibitions/japanese-internment</a>.

Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps 

DeArmond, Megan, Diana Moronta, and Laurin Paradise. Women with Wings: American Aviatrixes. Digital Public Library of America. March 2015. <a href="https://dp.la/exhibitions/american-aviatrixes">https://dp.la/exhibitions/american-aviatrixes</a>.

American Aviatrixes: Women with Wings

Minnesota Digital Library. History of Survivance: Upper Midwest 19th-Century Native American Narratives. Digital Public Library of America. April 2013. <a href="https://dp.la/exhibitions/history-of-survivance">https://dp.la/exhibitions/history-of-survivance</a>.

History of Survivance: Upper Midwest 19th-Century Native American Narratives

Brady, Hillary, and Franky Abbott. A History of US Public Libraries. Digital Public Library of America. September 2015. <a href="https://dp.la/exhibitions/history-us-public-libraries">https://dp.la/exhibitions/history-us-public-libraries</a>.

A History of US Public Libraries

Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library. Torn in Two: Mapping the American Civil War. Digital Public Library of America. May 2015. <a href="https://dp.la/exhibitions/mapping-american-civil-war">https://dp.la/exhibitions/mapping-american-civil-war</a>.

Torn in Two: Mapping the American Civil War

Martin, Greer. Children in Progressive-Era America. Digital Public Library of America. September 2015. <a href="https://dp.la/exhibitions/children-progressive-era">https://dp.la/exhibitions/children-progressive-era</a>.

Children in Progressive-Era America

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