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Discusses the Gadsden Purchase on December 30, 1853, which had settled a dispute over the exact location of the Mexican border west of El Paso, Texas, giving the U.S. claim to about 29,000 square miles of land from Mexico. Also provides information on John Peter Altgeld's political life in the State of Illinois at the end of the 19th century.
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Title from HTML header (viewed on Nov. 2002; last updated Dec. 2001).
Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Presents information on Rosa Parks and her arrest on Dec. 1, 1955, the African American boycott of the Montgomery bus system, and the 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation. Also presents information on the Dec. 1, 1957 debut of the ballet Agon, the New York City Ballet, and dance.
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