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"Imagine the most important secret you had to keep was that you were going to school... For many throughout history, getting an education meant relying on underground networks, hidden classrooms, and covert teaching. And for some, it is still a reality. Children and adults around the world have gone to incredible and sometimes dangerous lengths to attend schools that allow them to preserve their culture, resist oppression, fight gender inequality,...
2) One girl
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Inspired by the idea of empowering girls around the world to demand their right to education, one girl lights a small spark which catches fire, and eventually lights up the whole world.
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"An inspiring young leader's moving call to action for anyone who seeks to make the world a better place--and the first title from Melinda French Gates's Moment of Lift Books. As the newly appointed minister of education in Sierra Leone, David Moinina Sengeh assumed that the administration he served--not to mention his family and friends--shared his conviction that all girls belong in the classroom. So he was shocked to learn that many of those closest...
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In Kenya in 1953 there was a violent uprising against British colonial rule led by the Mau Mau, who were mainly from the Kikuyu tribe. Thousands were killed, and thousands imprisoned, although the conflict did eventually lead to independence for Kenya. Based on a true story, this tells the tale of how 84-year-old Kenyan villager and ex-Mau Mau freedom fighter Kimani N'gan'ga Maruge fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the...
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Scope and content: Invitation, program, 30 min. radio broadcast recording, and welcome sign for President John F. Kennedy's speech at Vanderbilt University on May 18, 1963. His speech was in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the university's founding, and also was in observation of the 30th anniversary of the act which established the Tennessee Valley Authority. At the conclusion of the speech, a button was pushed which triggered the first...