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National Teacher Appreciation Week
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Teachers play a critical role in educating and shaping our children: the future leaders of our country. They are kind, patient, hard-working, dedicated, and understanding professionals who help mold our children and guide them in positive directions. We entrust our children with the teachers, and they affect their lives daily.
Teachers do all they can for their students, and we’re doing all we can for teachers. We’re transforming our appreciation into action that protects students, strengthens…
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Shirley Chisholm – Unbought & Unbossed
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The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers -- a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone.
On January 25, 1972 Shirley Chisholm, Member of Congress from New York's Twelfth District announced her candidacy for President of the United States. She became the…
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“The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” – Speech by Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852
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Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?
Frederick Douglass gave this speech on July 5, 1852 at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Corinthian Hall in Rochester,…
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April 3, 1968 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
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The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion all around. That’s a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
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Women’s History Month – Shirley Chisholm, Unbought & Unbossed (includes video)
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The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers -- a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.
One of Ms. Chisholm’s most famous speeches was in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. It was delivered August 10, 1970 in Washington, DC before the…
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Martin Luther King, Jr – I’ve Been to the Mountaintop – April 3, 1968
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The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
Note: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968…
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