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    While poking around loc.gov, looking for something else entirely, I ran across the African American Perspectives collection. It's a rich and varied collection with lots of potential for teaching. In addition to the collection items themselves, the Articles and Essays tab is well worth a look. It includes background on Abolition and Slavery, Colonization, Women Authors, and more. At the bottom is a link to a wonderful curated set of Selected Portraits from the African American Perspectives Collection, each with yet another link to a primary source related to an individual portrait.

    Here's one example used as a poetic preface to the printed 1917 speech given by a Los Angeles high school senior named Myrtle Anderson - A Plea for Justice:

    https://www.loc.gov/resource/lcrbmrp.t8054/?sp=7 

    I wonder if today's high school seniors could find a present-day reference to these two lines of poetry:

    "She fought delusion with the truth,

    And shamed the Anglo-Saxon youth." 

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    That is a beautiful and astounding poem   Mary Johnson !  It rings true for many of our students who have worked so hard over the last few years to educate their peers on racism, social justice and equity issues.  So amazing to see this in 1917 as well.  I shall pass it along.  The collection you shared is a wonderful resource - thank you.

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