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The Breadwinner

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Parvana felt the shadow before she saw it, as the man moved between her and the sun. Turning her head, she saw the dark turban that was the uniform of the Taliban. A rifle was slung across his chest as casually as her father's shoulder bag had been slung across hers...

The Talib kept looking down at her. Then he put his hand inside his vest. Keeping his eyes on Parvana, he drew something out of his vest pocket.

Parvana was about to squish her eyes shut and wait to be shot when she saw that the Talib had taken out a letter.

He sat down beside her on the blanket.

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The Breadwinner

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

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It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name—yellow fever—but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown, and there is no cure.

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Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

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In 1964, Mississippi civil rights groups banded together to fight Jim Crow laws in a state where only 6.4 percent of eligible black voters were registered. Testing a bold new strategy, they recruited students from across the United States. That summer these young volunteers defied segregation by living with local black hosts, opening Freedom Schools to educate disenfranchised adults and their children, and canvassing door-to-door to register voters.

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980L
Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

Digital Commons Network

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The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

Riverside's Mine' Okubo

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Teachers may have trouble opening this link as it is a blog post, but this is directly listed inside of the Grade 8 Module M3A - Japanese American Relations in WWII.

The blog post provides an overview of Mine' Okubo's life and character.

Voices from the Gaps: Mine' Okubo

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Biography of Mine' Okubo.

The Fifth Column on the Coast

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Article written by Walter Lippmann for the Washington Post that calls on the U.S. government to take action against persons of Japanese ancestry, aliens and citizens alike, in military zones, Feb. 12, 1942.

Courtesy of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, University of Washington Libraries microfilm A7378, Reel 2, Box 2, Frame 0263, Item 1401

Munson Report

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C.B. Munson's "Report and Suggestions Regarding Handling the Japanese Question on the Coast," Dec. 20, 1941. Courtesy of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, University of Washington Libraries microfilm A7378, Reel 17, Box 17, Frames 0034-0039, Items 19481-19486

Transcript of Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941)

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Transcript of Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941)

Equal Rights for Women Speech

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Text of the "Equal Rights for Women" speech by Shirley Chisholm on May 21, 1969.
Sources: Congressional Record - Extensions of Remarks E4165-6.

Modern History Sourcebook: Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a Woman?", December 1851

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Text of the December 1851 speech by Sojourner Truth.

Lyndon Johnson, “The Great Society,” speech made on May 22, 1964

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Johnson describes his domestic agenda and vision for a better America.
May 22, 1964

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Letter written by Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963 and published in the Atlantic.

In This Blind Alley

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Poem by Ahmad Shamlu, written in 1979 after the Revolution in Iran.

Freedom

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Poem by Rabindranath Tagore.

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