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How Chinese Migrants Built the Transcontinental Railroad
During a ceremony, two men shake hands while surrounded by a crowd of men and two locomotives facing each other.

How Chinese Migrants Built the Transcontinental Railroad
Dominique Stewart
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The Transcontinental Railroad is hailed as one of the country’s greatest engineering feats, but the immigrants who built it have long been ignored. 

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The History of the Texas Rangers
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The History of the Texas Rangers
Jami Nakamura Lin
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The Texas Rangers law enforcement agency is mythologized in popular media as moral defenders of the law, ignoring a long history of violence.

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Criminal Legal System History Policing
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The Push to Change Racist Sports Team Names
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The Push to Change Racist Sports Team Names
Team ARD
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Many professional sports teams, such as the Kansas City Chiefs, have names or mascots that revere genocide and racial violence.

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