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Concerned about the political and economic influence of the church, and fearful of any alternative belief system challenging the primacy of the Communist party, leaders of the Soviet Union worked to limit the role of the Jewish religion in Russian society. During the 1960s, organizers drew attention to the plight of the persecuted religion through an international campaign, encouraging victims to emigrate.

The Russian government relaxed its restrictions on expressions of Jewish identity and Jewish culture when President Mikhail Gorbachev instituted Glasnost. Since the mid-1980s, the ban on teaching Hebrew has been lifted and many facilities for the rituals of the faith have been opened in Russia.

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In August 1975, after being arrested for breaking and entering, as well as larceny, Joann Little, a 20-year-old African American woman in Beaufort, North Carolina, killed a deputy sheriff in self-defense after he attempted to rape her. Little fled but was later arrested and put on trial for first-degree murder. The Joann Little Defense Committee was established by the Prisoner Solidarity Committee, a unit of the Workers World Party, which organized rallies, marches, petitioning and more in major cities across the country, in hopes of bringing awareness to Little’s case and expedient justice in the form of a dismissal and release. Other branches of the WWP (including Philadelphia), the Winston-Salem, North Carolina branch of the Black Panther Party, and many other organization joined in calling for the release of Little and for action around women’s rights, racial and sexual inequality in the criminal justice system, police brutality, and capital punishment, among other things. On August 22, 1975, over a thousand people demonstrated outside the courthouse where Little was being tried; that day a jury declared Joann Little not guilty to much celebration.

More recently, comparisons have been made between Little’s case and that of Cyntoia Brown, who spent 15 years in jail for a death resulting from self-defense. She was granted clemency on January 7, 2019, by Governor Bill Haslam.

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Jules Feiffer is a cartoonist and writer with his most famous work, a satirical comic strip, Feiffer (originally named Sick Sick Sick). Before he was an established cartoonist, he was an apprentice whose boss had told Feiffer his work was lousy, but hired him anyway. For forty years (1956-1997), he displayed his work for The Village Voice as the staff cartoonist. Feiffer took a public stance in opposition to Vietnam War with his Enough campaign.

In the late 1960's, the war in Vietnam (started in 1955) started to lose popular consensus that Americans should be fighting there. The war had gone on longer than the American people were told, and the number of deaths kept climbing. Feeling like their opinions were not being heard, multiple peace movements popped up around the country with the intent to be non-violent, but would sometimes end with altercations and arrests by police. Despite the growing disapproval for the war it would not officially end until 1975.

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Founded by Clara Barton and a group of her acquaintances in Washington, D.C. in 1881.  The American Red Cross is dedicated to helping people in need throughout the United States and, in association with other Red Cross networks, throughout the world. The organization accepts contributions of time, blood, and money to support lifesaving services and programs. The organization is best known since the 2000s for its work helping communities deal with major disasters such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires.

Jerome Heartwell "Brud" Holland was an American university president and diplomat. He was the first African American to chair the American Red Cross Board of Governors, which named its Laboratory for the Biomedical Sciences in his honor. Holland was on the American Red Cross board of directors from 1964-70, and in 1977 he returned to the board, becoming its first African American chairman in 1979. He was a tireless advocate for blood research at the ARC, consolidating its biomedical research into a single facility that today is known as the Jerome H. Holland Laboratory for the Biomedical Sciences, in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Holland died in 1985. After his death, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan.

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The U.S out of South Africa Network was the joint creation of the All-People's Congress and the People's Anti-War Network. The Network was created in 1985 with the primary goal of protesting multinational corparations with financial ties to South Africa’s apartheid government. Based out of New York City, the Network sought to raise awareness of the segregation and injustice taking place in South Africa. They hoped by informing the public of the situation in South Africa that they could garner international support against apartheid and against imperialism, which they viewed as the larger root issue.  

One major way they furthered their agenda was to organize a campaign supporting the African National Congress (ANC), and the South West Africa's People Organization (SWAPO). Both the ANC and SWAPO were militant political organizations formed in opposition to the apartheid system. The ANC would fight to overturn apartheid directly in South Africa, eventually ending the system of segregation under the leadership of Nelson Mandela in the early 1990’s, becoming the country's ruling party. SWAPO would battle to liberate Namibia from South Africa. In 1988 they would successfully separate Namibia from South Africa and SWAPO would go on to be one of the nations most prominent political parties. 

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Christopher Hodge, known also by his stage name, "Woofy Bubbles," was a performance and textile artist active in the 1970s and 1980s, primarily in Philadelphia. Hodge was most famous for his traveling "Woo World Players," who were dressed in abstract and multicolored costumes and set against painted backdrops to create Woo World, an artistic landscape that combined naturalistic shapes and surrealist fantasy to, "embrace the realms of myth, caricature, and cartoonlike realities." The performance is often compared to Japanese Kabuki theater, though Hodge remarked that, "people take it all more seriously than they should." The word 'woo' comes, according to the artist, from the 'W' for the five questions of who, what, when, where, and why, and the 'oo' which signify two searching eyes.

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The presence on this Italian flag of the crowned Savoy coat of arms identifies it as the Italian Naval flag (Bandiera da Guerra) in use during WWI. The only American unit to serve on the Italian front was the 332nd Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel William Wallace until its return to the United States in 1919 and subsequent demobilization. The primary goal of the regiment's deployment in Italy was to raise Italian morale and lead occupying forces of Austria and Hungary to believe that a much larger American presence had been established. The insignia of the 332nd was designed specifically to reflect this mission, and featured the lion of St. Mark (the symbol of Venice) resting his paw on a Bible that reads "332".

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This design shows support for the U.S.A. The graphic is simple and easy to identify as the shape of the United States. Using the blue section with no stars on the upper left and alternating red and white stripes displays a minimalist version of the flag. The United States of America comprises 50 states spanning North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The country borders Canada to the North and Mexico to the South. It is the fifth-largest nation in the world. The United States flag is symbolic of freedom, courage, and strength. The first official flag of the United States was the Stars and Stripes, featuring thirteen alternating red and white stripes and thirteen white stars in a ring on a blue background.

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