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George Tiller
George Tiller Explains What It Takes to Preform an Abortion

  By Witnify • January 22, 2014 Uncategorized
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George Tiller, a physician who was known to preform late-term abortions, discusses why he performs abortions and what kind of person it takes to do it. Continue reading

Tagged   Assassination, Civil Rights, George Tiller, Politics and History, Roe V. Wade, Women
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Roe V. Wade
Dr. Curtis Boyd: "We Won"

  By Witnify • January 22, 2014 Uncategorized
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Dr. Curtis Boyd, who provided thousands of illegal abortions to women in Texas, remembers the day that abortion became legal. Continue reading

Tagged   Civil Rights, Politics and History, Roe V. Wade, Women
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Roe V. Wade
Rev. Howard Moody on His Part in the Underground

  By Witnify • January 22, 2014 Uncategorized
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Reverend Howard Moody created an underground network of clergy members and abortion providers within the church during the period before abortion was legalized. Continue reading

Tagged   Civil Rights, Politics and History, Roe V. Wade, Women
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Roe V. Wade
Doctors Said: ‘I’ll Give You an Abortion, But…’

  By Witnify • January 22, 2014 Uncategorized
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Byllye Avery, founder of the National Black Women's Health Project, describes what it was like for black women who wanted to end their pregnancy. Continue reading

Tagged   Civil Rights, Politics and History, Roe V. Wade, Women
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Roe V. Wade
Dr. Mildred Hanson's Feels Responsible for Woman's Suicide

  By Witnify • January 22, 2014 Uncategorized
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In the span of time when abortion was illegal, Dr. Mildred Hanson remembers receiving a phone call from a young woman asking to end her pregnancy. Continue reading

Tagged   Civil Rights, Politics and History, Roe V. Wade, Women
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Secret Service Agent Jerry Blaine: ‘We Carried Terrible Guilt About That Day’

  By Witnify • January 22, 2014 Uncategorized
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Jerry Blaine was part of Kennedy’s Secret Service detail on the day of his assassination in Dallas, Texas. Blaine discusses the challenge of having to work in spite of the collective grief the detail faced. Continue reading

Tagged   Assassination, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Politics and History, Secret Service
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Roe V. Wade
Jane Roe: "Dedicated to Preserving Life"

  By Mimstayl • January 21, 2014 Uncategorized
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Norma McCorvery, also referred to as Jane Roe, who once fought for abortion and right to privacy for women, years later changed her opinion. Continue reading

Tagged   Politics and History, Roe V. Wade, Women
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Roe V. Wade
The Lawyer Who Won Roe V. Wade on Fighting in Court

  By Mimstayl • January 21, 2014 Uncategorized
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At a book signing by Sarah Weddington at the Robert H. Jackson Center, Sarah discusses her book "A Question of Choice" that dealt with her successful representation in the Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade. Continue reading

Tagged   Civil Rights, Politics and History, Roe V. Wade, Women
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. on Improving Social Equality

  By Witnify • January 19, 2014 Uncategorized
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Martin Luther King Jr. discusses the current state of African American inequality in this rare audio of a speech he gave at the New School in New York, City on February 6, 1964. Continue reading

Tagged   Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr., Politics and History, Speech
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Ruby Bridges on King’s Presence Throughout Her Life

  By Witnify • January 18, 2014 Uncategorized
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Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges shares her memories of King's lessons and remembers what it was like to be exposed to civil rights at a young age by being integrated into the New Orleans school system. Continue reading

Tagged   1950s, 1960s, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr., Politics and History, Speech
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