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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement

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“Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.”
― Sara Sheridan

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“There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

tags: cultural-prison, culture, evolutionary-process, prison

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive.”
― Sara Sheridan

tags: archives, clues, daily-life, everyday, future, history, past, present, treasure

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“To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.”
― Sara Sheridan

tags: archives, journals, letters, reading, treasure, treasure-hunting

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