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Reagan, “Remarks on Signing the Bill Providing Restitution for the Wartime Internment of Japanese-American Civilians.”

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“Norman Mineta and His Legacy.”

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“Norman Mineta and His Legacy.”

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Pat Morrison, “Norman Mineta on Internment, 9/11 and a Life Spent in the Vortex of American Politics,” Los Angeles Times, May 8, 2019.

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“September 11, 2001: Attack on America,” Statement by Norman Y. Mineta Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, September 20, 2001.

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“Remarks Following Discussions with Prime Minister Jean Chretien of Canada,” George W. Bush, September 24, 2001.

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“Norman Mineta and His Legacy.”

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Joseph R. Biden, “Funeral Service of Daniel Inouye,” YouTube, video, December 21, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho1Wh18gXu0, 10:33–10:50.

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Barack H. Obama, “Funeral Service of Daniel Inouye,” YouTube, video, December 21, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho1Wh18gXu0, 35:04–35:28.

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Xavier Vavasseur, “U.S. Navy Commissions Its 69th Arleigh Burke-class Destroyer,” Naval News, December 9, 2021, https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/12/u-s-navy-commissions-its-69th-arleigh-burke-class-destroyer/.

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Daniel K. Inouye and Lawrence Elliott, Journey to Washington (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967), 97.

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“Statement on the Passing of Senator Daniel K. Inouye,” press release, December 17, 2012, https://www.higp.hawaii.edu/spacegrant/old/Statement_on_the_Passing_of_Senator_Inouye.pdf.

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“Norman Mineta and His Legacy.”

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Twenty-Two: Claudette Colvin, Alabama, 1950s

“The Other Rosa Parks: Now 73, Claudette Colvin Was First to Refuse Giving Up Seat on Montgomery Bus,” interview, Democracy Now!, March 29, 2013, https://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/29/the_other_rosa_parks_now_73#:~:text=In%20March%201955%2C%20she%20was,way%20to%20the%20Supreme%20Court.

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Phillip M. Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014), 11.

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Hoose, Claudette Colvin, 23.

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“Alabama Executes Jeremiah Reeves After Police Torture Him into False Confession,” Equal Justice Initiative, March 28, 1958, https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/mar/28.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Statement Delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage Protesting the Electrocution of Jeremiah Reeves,” The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University, April 6, 1958, https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/statement-delivered-prayer-pilgrimage-protesting-electrocution-jeremiah-reeves.

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Hoose, Claudette Colvin, 26.

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