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Becoming a Lawyer

9/30/2015

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In 1855 Massachusetts became the first state to require a written test to be a lawyer.

Brian Dirck, Lincoln the Lawyer (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007), 21.
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Franklin's Anonymous Advocacy

9/23/2015

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While Benjamin Franklin was representing the colonies in London, he wrote over 300 letters to the press using 22 different pen names. 

Don Cook, The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760 – 1785 (New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995), 43.

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First for Female Reporter

9/16/2015

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In 1928 Lorena Hickok became the first female reporter to have a byline on the front page of The New York Times.  

Michael Golay, America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal (New York: Free Press, 2013), 2.  
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Korean War Recruits

9/9/2015

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From the start of the Korean War in June of 1950 to the spring of 1951, the U.S. military grew from 1.4 million to 2.5 million people.  

Burton I. Kaufman, The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986), 156.  

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No School in Little Rock

9/3/2015

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The school year after the first group of African American students (the Little Rock Nine) attended Little Rock Central High School the Arkansas governor closed the city’s four high schools to prevent continued integration. 

David A. Nichols, A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007), 228. 

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