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This Week in People’s History, Oct 9–15

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Photo of a woman wearing and academic gown and hat climbing a staircase, with the caption: Breaking Barriers: Women and the Law
A Long Time Coming, and How! (1949), A Work of Towering Imagination (1959), August Wilson Takes Broadway (1984), The Truth Hurts (1999), If Only There Had Been More Advertising (1929), ‘We Are Everywhere’ (1979), Was Nixon Listening? (1969)

This Week in People’s History, Sept 25-Oct 1

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William Patterson addressing the 1949 Bill of Rights Conference
Bill of Rights Birthday (1789), Nixon’s Nightmare (1969), Resist Illegitimate Authority (1967), “Proletarians of All Countries, Unite!” (1864), Fighting for Free Speech (1909), Racist Violence at Its Worst (1919), When Students Fight, They Win (1964)

This Week in People’s History, Sept 18–24

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Movie poster for documentary film "The Sorrow and the Pity"
The Sorrow and the Pity Rewrites History (1969), The Dawn of Women’s Suffrage (1893), Millions Protest Global Warming (2019), Thelonious Monk’s Musical Signature (1954), An All-Star Cast Says ‘No Nukes!’ (1979), The Chicago Eight on Trial (1969)

This Week in People’s History, Sept 11–17

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Cover of sheet Saint Louis Blues sheet music
I Hate to See the Evenin' Sun Go Down (1914), Take National Defense Day and Shove It! (1924), Apartheid on the Skids (1989), Death of an Organizer (1929), Whose Streets? Our Streets! (1964), Big Win for Solidarity (1889), Moses of Her People (1849)

This Week in People’s History, Sept 4–10

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Photo of workers and supervisors in a munitions factory
Death for Export (1934), The Die Is Cast (1774), The Shot Not Heard Around the World (1774), Yankee Doodle Shafts Native Americans (1783), Jim Crow Must Go, but ‘Voluntarily’ (1954), Boston Police Strike Out (1919), Give Us Liberty or Death! (1739)

This Week in People’s History, Aug 21–27

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5 arrested demonstrators being escorted out of a Jim-Crow library
Open to the Public? (1939), Dissin’ Freedom Democrats (1964), Voters Say ‘No’ to the Klan (1924), Starting a Revolution (1774), Broadway’s a Tough Place to Take a Break (1959), Protecting Miners’ Health (1969), A Setback for Civil Rights (1949)

This Week in People’s History, Aug. 14–20

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A natural stone arch in Utah known as Rainbown Arch
A Stone Rainbow (1909), Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (1969), A ‘Great Assembly of the Fearless and Free’ (1819), Music’s New Language (1959), Whites’-Only Athletics Is a Big Loser (1964), Fan the Flames of Discontent (1909), How It All Began (1619)

This Week in People’s History, Aug. 7–13

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Lyrics to the first verse of Next Stop, Vietnam
Next Stop, Vietnam (1964), 80 Years Late, the Mutiny that Never Was (1944), ‘A Lonely Island of Poverty’ (1964), Warplanes Aren’t Cheap (1939), Destruction and Devastation (1779), Little Rock’s Slo-Mo Crisis (1959), A Powerful Union Is Born (1919)

This Week in People’s History, July 31-Aug 6

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Graphic of a hand placing a ballot in a ballot-box
Freedom Summer Digs In (1964), Warsaw Uprising Begins (1944), Jim Crow, Meet Lieutenant Robinson (1944), A Big Win for Free Speech (1929), Beach Days for the Masses (1929), ‘We Seek No Wider War’ (1964), Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (1964)