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WASHINGTON — At the climax of his "I Have a Dream" speech, Martin Luther King Jr., the final speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, raises his arm on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and calls out for deliverance with the electrifying words of an old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!"
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A long-term look at life on the US - Mexico Border from 1975-2001.

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The youth and music of London's public housing developments.
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Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Alec Soth's Sleeping by the Mississippi captures America's iconic yet often neglected "third coast." Sensuous in detail and raw in subject, the book elicits a mood of loneliness, longing, and reverie.
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Zoom In: Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement
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Zoom In: Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement
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On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Ala., bus, helping to spark the civil rights movement.
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