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This Week in People’s History, Aug. 28 – Sept. 5

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Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans wading through waist-deep floodwater Deadly weather in 2005. KKK run out of town in 1923. FBI informers mess up in 1973. The telephone industry discovers women workers in 1878. TV news is ready for prime time in 1963. Frederick Douglass frees himself in 1838. Ethnic cleansing in 1838.
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