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This was the only refugee camp in America for Jews fleeing the Nazis

Roosevelt’s effort to help came…

Brendan Seibel in Timeline

How NYC tenements once hid secret sweatshops

Immigrant families worked punishing hours in dilapidated apartments just to survive

Ashawnta Jackson in Timeline

She was one of the first black women to host a television show

Then the House Un-American Activities Committee came for her

Meagan Day in Timeline

The First Black-Led Union Wouldn’t Have Existed Without This Woman

Behind the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was a sisterhood

Shoshi Parks in Timeline

This woman realized the sun’s potential long before the rest of the country

Mária Telkes lead the way in solar power development

Qiana Mestrich in Timeline

Towards a history of women of color in the workplace

Resurfacing snapshots from my mother’s work life

Brendan Seibel in Timeline

These photos show how the American Civil Rights Movement influenced Aboriginal rights activists

Students traveled Australia by bus, just like the Freedom Riders

Shoshi Parks in Timeline

These women were the toughest performers in the Wild West

Don’t try horse diving at home

Miss America 1968: When civil rights and feminist activists converged

Miss Black America was born to tell the country that black is beautiful

Ashawnta Jackson in Timeline

This woman shattered the gender barrier in pro baseball

When Toni Stone joined the Negro League, she became the first woman regular on a big-league team

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