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People (4)
Booker T. Washington
Educator, founder of Tuskegee Institute, and architect of the Atlanta Compromise
Helen Keller
Deaf-blind author and activist whose radicalism the 20th century spent decades trying to forget
Sequoyah
Cherokee polymath who invented a writing system and made his nation literate in a single generation
W.E.B. Du Bois
Sociologist, co-founder of the NAACP, and theorist of Black identity in America
Places (4)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
The Hyde Park archive that invented the presidential library
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
The library at the birthplace of the president who preceded the New Deal
The U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis — where the Navy and Marine Corps train their officers
West Point
The military academy that trained the officers who led America's wars
Events (1)
Columbine High School Shooting
The 1999 attack that reshaped how America sees school violence
Documents (2)
GI Bill
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 — the law that built the American middle class
Morrill Act
The 1862 land-grant law that democratized higher education and created America's state universities
Concepts (1)
Affirmative Action
The Six-Decade Legal and Political Battle Over Race-Conscious Remediation
Organizations (1)
The Presidential Libraries
The archive system FDR launched in 1939 to preserve the records of the modern presidency
Symbols (1)
The Pledge of Allegiance
The oath to the flag, written in 1892 and revised ever since
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