How the Future Shapes Our National History with Heather Cox Richardson
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Is There Something Here I Can't Live With?
"What gives me hope are the people who created dramatic and exciting and productive and enviable lives out of whole cloth," she says. "Fannie Lou Hamer got involved in learning about voting and election rights in the American South when there was simply no way a black woman was going to be allowed to vote" Thurgood Marshall's father was a waiter whose hobby was to go to the courtroom and listen to cases and deconstruct the cases, which he did as part of his law practice.
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