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This Week in People’s History, Jan 16–22

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Storefronts covered with signs promoting prohibition Prohibition Gets Started (in 1919), Slave Owners Get Nervous (1834), Swing Comes to the Opera House (1944), Repression Takes Practice (1934), Nazis Make a Reality of Wage Slavery (1934), Wilmington Occupation Ends (1969), Voting Rights Victory (1964)

This Week in People’s History, Oct. 3-Oct. 9

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A poster advertising the 1963 Freedom Vote in Mississippi Exercising the right to vote in Mississippi (in 1963). Air travel revolutionized (1958). Feds can't prove their case (1918). Markets plummet (1973). A new way of walkin' (1923). Deadly influenza (1918). None dare call it mutiny (1971)

The Georgia Indictment Speaks to History

David Firestone New York Times
Ms. Willis in trying to tell the full story, made sure the high cost paid by lesser-known figures was also recorded. Specifically, the indictment focuses on the outrageous accusations made against Ruby Freeman, the Atlanta election worker singled out

Constrain the Court—Without Crippling It

Laurence H. Tribe New York Review
Critics of the Supreme Court think it has lost its claim to legitimacy. But proposals for reforming it must strike a balance with preserving its power and independence, which remain essential to our constitutional system.
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