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Curt Flood Challenges Baseball’s Reserve Clause
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Daniel Ellsberg Leaks the Pentagon Papers
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The Seminole-African Alliance
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Dorothea Lange Photographs Japanese-American Internment Camps
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Coxey’s Army Marches to Washington
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