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The Civil Rights Room is a space for education and exploration of NPL's Civil Rights Collection. The materials exhibited here capture the drama of a time when thousands of African-American citizens in Nashville sparked a nonviolent challenge to racial segregation in the city and across the South.
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"May, a young white woman, is on the brink of achieving the independent life she's dreamed of since childhood. Naomi, a nurse, mother, and leader of the NAACP, has fulfilled her own dearest desire: buying a home for her family. But they both are about to learn that dreams can be destroyed in an instant. May's future is upended, and she is forced to rely once again on her mother. Meanwhile, the white-majority neighborhood into which Naomi has moved...
3) Yo y la supremacía blanca: combate el racismo, cambia el mundo y conviértete en un buen antepasado
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Cuando Layla Saad comenzó un desafío de Instagram llamado #meandwhitesupremacy, nunca predijo que se convertiría en un movimiento cultural. Animó a la gente a reconocer y compartir sus comportamientos racistas, grandes y pequeños. Ella estaba buscando la verdad, y la consiguió ... Miles de personas participaron en el desafío y más de 80,000 personas descargaron el trabajo de apoyo Me and White Supremacy. Actualización y ampliación...
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"On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000...
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