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

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

Roosevelt’s effort to help came at the end of the war, but still spared a thousand lives
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Nina Renata Aron
How NYC tenements once hid secret sweatshops

How NYC tenements once hid secret sweatshops

Immigrant families worked punishing hours in dilapidated apartments just to survive
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Brendan Seibel
She was one of the first black women to host a television show

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

Then the House Un-American Activities Committee came for her
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Ashawnta Jackson
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The radical history of the headwrap

The radical history of the headwrap

Born into slavery, then reclaimed by black women, the headwrap is now a celebrated expression of style and identity
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Khanya Mtshali
These trendsetting lesbian lovers fled 1920s America for Paris and lived their best life

These trendsetting lesbian lovers fled 1920s America for Paris and ...

Solita Solano and Janet Flanner, bored with American patriarchy, created their own path
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Nina Renata Aron
Welcome to Operation Dixie, the most ambitious unionization attempt in the U.S.

Welcome to Operation Dixie, the most ambitious unionization attempt...

Southern segregation, racism and a militarized police meant the plan was destined to fail
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Meagan Day
As men took over the video game industry, Brenda Laurel pioneered girls’ games

As men took over the video game industry, Brenda Laurel pioneered g...

This VR pioneer had a radical idea — girls’ games shouldn’t be dumbed down versions of boys’ games
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Shoshi Parks
Born into slavery, this man won the Kentucky Derby three times and became the richest American…

Born into slavery, this man won the Kentucky Derby three times and ...

Despite his success, the sport Isaac Burns Murphy helped build disappeared from beneath him as white men pushed black jockeys out
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Timeline
These horrifying ‘human zoos’ delighted American audiences at the turn of the 20th century

These horrifying ‘human zoos’ delighted American audiences at the t...

‘Specimens’ were acquired from Africa, Asia, and the Americas by deceptive human traffickers
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Shoshi Parks
The man responsible for the modern NRA killed a Hispanic teenager, before becoming a border agent

The man responsible for the modern NRA killed a Hispanic teenager, ...

Harlon Carter led the evolution from sporting advocacy to political juggernaut
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Laura Smith
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