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  • Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. May Noma behind the plate and Tomi Nagao at bat . . ., May 30, 1942
  • Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany, 1936

    Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany, 1936. National Archives, National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized

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  • World War I Draft Registration Card for George Herman Ruth, 1917-1918

    World War I Draft Registration Card for George Herman Ruth, 1917-1918. National Archives, Records of the Selective Service System (World War I)

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  • Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. May Noma behind the plate and Tomi Nagao at bat . . ., May 30, 1942

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    Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Maye Noma behind the plate and Tomi Nagao at bat in a practice game between members of the Chick-a-dee soft ball team, which was kept intact when the players were evacuated from Los Angeles to Manzanar, a War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. May 30, 1942. National Archives, Records of the War Relocation Authority.

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  • Pvt. Joe Louis Says – ‘We’re Going to Do Our Part . . . and We’ll Win Because We’re on God’s Side,’ 1942

    "Pvt. Joe Louis Says – We’re Going to Do Our Part . . . and We’ll Win Because We’re on God’s Side," 1942. National Archives, Records of the Office of Government Reports

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  • Letter from Kenesaw Landis to President Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Letter from Kenesaw Landis to President Franklin D. Roosevelt Regarding Baseball, January 14, 1942. National Archives, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

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  • Photograph of Jim Thorpe, ca. 1910

    Jim Thorpe, ca. 1910. National Archives, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

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  • Letter from Lt. Jack Robinson to Truman K. Gibson, July 16, 1944, page 1

    Letter from Lt. Jack Robinson to Truman K. Gibson, July 16, 1944. National Archives, Records of the Office of the Secretary of War

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  • Third seed Serena Williams, USA

    Third seed Serena Williams, USA returns a shot during her 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 victory over Natalie Dechy, as the Family Circle Cup Tennis Tournament on Daniel Island in Charleston, South Carolina, while hundreds of Charleston Air Force Base (AFB) personnel volunteer to help provide security for...Read more

    Third seed Serena Williams, USA returns a shot during her 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 victory over Natalie Dechy, as the Family Circle Cup Tennis Tournament on Daniel Island in Charleston, South Carolina, while hundreds of Charleston Air Force Base (AFB) personnel volunteer to help provide security for the tournament, April 17, 2002. National Archives, Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense

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  • Title IX, Public Law 92-318

    An Act of June 23, 1972, Public Law 92-318, 86 STAT 235, to Amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Vocational Educational Act of 1963, the General Education Provisions Act (Creating a National Foundation for Postsecondary Education and a National Institute of Education), the Elementary...Read more

    An Act of June 23, 1972, Public Law 92-318, 86 STAT 235, to Amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Vocational Educational Act of 1963, the General Education Provisions Act (Creating a National Foundation for Postsecondary Education and a National Institute of Education), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Public Law 874, Eighty-First Congress, and Related Acts, and for Other Purposes, June 23, 1972. National Archives, General Records of the United States Government

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  •  Chilocco Indian School Basketball Team, 1909

    Chilocco Indian School Basketball Team, 1909. National Archives, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

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  • Letter from the Green Bay Football Corporation to Gerald Ford Offering a Professional Football Contract, February 11, 1935

    Letter from the Green Bay Football Corporation to Gerald Ford Offering a Professional Football Contract, February 11, 1935. National Archives, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

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  • Autobiographical Manuscript by Jack Johnson, 1921

    Autobiographical Manuscript by Jack Johnson, 1921. National Archives, Records of the Bureau of Prisons

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    Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. May Noma behind the plate and Tomi Nagao at bat . . ., May 30, 1942
    Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany, 1936
    World War I Draft Registration Card for George Herman Ruth, 1917-1918
    Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. May Noma behind the plate and Tomi Nagao at bat . . ., May 30, 1942
    Pvt. Joe Louis Says – ‘We’re Going to Do Our Part . . . and We’ll Win Because We’re on God’s Side,’ 1942
    Letter from Kenesaw Landis to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Photograph of Jim Thorpe, ca. 1910
    Letter from Lt. Jack Robinson to Truman K. Gibson, July 16, 1944, page 1
    Third seed Serena Williams, USA
    Title IX, Public Law 92-318
     Chilocco Indian School Basketball Team, 1909
    Letter from the Green Bay Football Corporation to Gerald Ford Offering a Professional Football Contract, February 11, 1935
    Autobiographical Manuscript by Jack Johnson, 1921
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