This is too important to fail, because it is holding a nation's--holding a people's--culture in my hands, ... My litmus test will be, Would my ancestors be happy.
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I have rarely experienced a city that is so enamored with its history. Chicagoans revel in their history.
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Organizers say they hope the exhibit will bring the unvarnished reality of the bus boycott home to viewers. In some ways, we've romanticized the civil rights movement, ... We often forget just how strong the walls of segregation were, just how close to the surface racial hatred was. This wasn't simply a walk in the park.
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