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The March of Dimes Foundation has a walkathon event every year with over 1000 communities participating across the United States. The first walkathon took place in 1970 and was the first charitable walking event to take place in the country. March of Dimes is a non-profit organization founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938. It was first known as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which worked to combat polio. The organization grew, after funding the polio vaccine, to include work on preventing birth defects and infant mortality as well as funding research to prevent premature birth. 

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Student Health Projects were alternative learning opportunities for healthcare students to gain medical knowledge and experience outside of the hospital classroom setting. This health initiative was aimed at educating students on the social and economic conditions of disease courses, a non-traditional approach at the time. Conferences were held to provide networking opportunities and further educate on the concepts of student health project possibilities.

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James H. Sills, Jr. was the first African-American politician to run as Democratic mayor in Wilmington, Delaware. Prior to his campaign, he served in the Delaware House of Representatives from 1984-1992. He also served as the president of the Wilmington NAACP in 1959 and supervised the desegregation of schools in Wilmington in 1978.

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Clayton, DE is a Census-Designated Place: a region that is recognized for census purposes but is not technically a town or a city. While the Lenape people have occupied the area since before 1200, the area saw population growth from colonization beginning in the 1600s. The region was dubbed Claymont in 1856 when a reverend from West Virginia settled in the area and renamed the settlement after his family’s plantation. In 2020, the population of Clayton was estimated to be approximately 9,895. 

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The Delano Grape Strike was a labor strike in California that began in September of 1965, and lasted for more than five years. The striking workers, led by Cesar Chavez and others, formed the United Farm Workers and demanded wages equivalent to the federal minimum wage. Through grassroots efforts, including consumer boycotts of non-union grapes, the United Farm Workers succeeded in reaching a collective bargaining agreement with the grape growers in July 1970.

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John B. Anderson’s was a 1980 Republican candidate for the President of the United States. Anderson is from Rockford, Illinois, and is a World War II veteran who served ten years as a GOP congressman before his presidential run. He later ran an independent campaign against the incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter and Republican Ronald Reagan. Anderson received 7 percent of the national vote and came third, while Reagan defeated Carter in a landslide.

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In 1938, The Union Commerce Bank, originally known as the Union Bank of Commerce, was founded in Cleveland, Ohio. Post-World War II, the bank changed its name, added more services, and expanded its reach to serve the newly created suburbs, eventually numbering over 40 branches. In 1949, the bank moved into the Union Trust Building located in downtown Cleveland. The bank endured financial troubles in the 1960s-1970s and ultimately was acquired by a larger Columbus-based company, Huntington Bancshares, in 1983.

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The slogan “You Gotta Have Art” was used by the Detroit Institute of Arts in a 1976 commercial to encourage people to visit the museum. The almost humorous, joyful commercial features people singing and dancing to a cover based on the song “Heart” from the musical Damn Yankees. The word "heart" was replaced with "art". This commercial was recirculated in 2013, when the city filed for bankruptcy and considered selling some of its 2,800 works of art, which valued around $454 million to $867 million. The message of this 1976 campaign, printed on this button, again became relevant.