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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

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Salem Witch Trials. Photogravure after the painting by Walter McEwen titled - The Witches - circa 1890s.

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