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intersectionality

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Fight Like a Girl:  How Women’s Activism Shapes History

July 3, 2018 by Rachel White

Alice Embree doesn’t know what came over her the first time she stood up against injustice. She just knew it was the right thing to do. Along with her friends Karen and Glodine and the rest of the Austin High School drill squad, Embree had just sat down to order at a restaurant in Corpus […]

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