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Mayflower Compact
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Mayflower Compact

G-001; Educational; Mayflower Compact; 1620

Four connected scenes show the 1620 agreement, the government it helped organize, the people left outside political power, and the taking of Nauset corn five days later.

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The Ballot Secured
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The Ballot Secured

August 6, 1965LocationPresident’s Room, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.Image MasterG-063E.png

When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965, the federal government gained new tools to remove barriers that had kept many Black Americans from voting. Yet organizers still faced deadly violence.

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He Was Off Duty. He Ran Toward the Gunfire Anyway.
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He Was Off Duty. He Ran Toward the Gunfire Anyway.

When a gunman attacked shoppers at an El Paso Walmart in August 2019, an off-duty Border Patrol agent and regular shoppers helped move people to safety and gave first aid — brave acts that happened during a massacre meant to terrorize an entire Hispanic community.

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They Kept Showing Up. Thousands of Them Didn’t Go Home.
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They Kept Showing Up. Thousands of Them Didn’t Go Home.

In 2020, doctors, nurses, and aides in hospitals like Long Island Jewish Medical Center treated a brand-new disease with no rulebook to follow, building up emergency care as they went — but the record shows the cost of that work fell hard on the workers themselves.

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