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In April 1977, disability activists nationwide picketed or occupied the Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) offices to fight for the passage of Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act. The largest and longest protest took place at the HEW offices…

An article from the Daily Alta California, Vol. 2, No. 312
October 20th, 1851
Describing the Columbia Star

community gathers around for re-opening of famed college bar-turned-restaurant

a photograph of the outside of the building of the hut

Presents the text of the Immigration Act of 1917, which regulated immigration of aliens to the United States. Definitions used in the Act; Prohibitions settled upon those seeking admittance; Prohibitions against indentured service.

Oscar Wilde said “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.“
Even under the most ideal circumstances, parenting is at best a flawed act of trying to balance teaching our kids what we…

Tourists at the information booth at Cost Plus. A sign of the changing nature of Fisherman's Wharf.

four people in a field at the interior of a circle of houses

Image of Olaudah Equiano