Womens March 
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/31/20
It wasn’t just the National Archives. The Library of Congress also balked at a Women’s March photo.
The library’s decision is the second-known instance of a federal government institution acting to prevent images it determined to be critical of Trump from being shown to the public.
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SOURCE: ArtNet
1/24/20
How the National Archives’ Notorious Alteration of a Women’s March Photo Is Part of a Long American Tradition
by Jennifer Tucker & Peter Rutland
Two professors explain how the image fits into the history of a country that has long sought to avoid discomfort.
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SOURCE: ArtNet
1/24/20
How the National Archives’ Notorious Alteration of a Women’s March Photo Is Part of a Long American Tradition
by Jennifer Tucker & Peter Rutland
Two professors explain how the image fits into the history of a country that has long sought to avoid discomfort.
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SOURCE: AHA
1/19/20
AHA Sends Letter to NARA Archivist about Altered Women's March Photo
The AHA sent the following letter to the Archivist of the United States objecting to the alteration of a photograph on exhibition and praising NARA staff for acknowledging this serious lapse in judgement.
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SOURCE: CNN
1/20/20
The National Archives' dangerous corruption of history
by David Perry
While the National Archives issued an apology and vowed to undergo "a thorough review" of its policies after the Washington Post first reported on the alteration, having discovered it by chance, as a historian I worry about how many other altered documents the Trump administration has buried in our records. Will we ever know?
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/18/20
National Archives says it was wrong to alter images
“This photo is not an archival record held by the @usnatarchives, but one we licensed to use as a promotional graphic,” it said in another tweet. “Nonetheless, we were wrong to alter the image.”
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SOURCE: Process History
4/16/19
Gale Kenny on the Womens March, Church Ladies, and Grassroots Political Religion
by Gale Kenny
The Women’s March and related activism are similar to the 20th century political organizing of the United Council of Church Women.
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SOURCE: Bustle
1/18/19
Historians Explain How The Women's March Builds On More Than 100 Years Of Resistance
Three past protests in particular opened up opportunities for movements like the Women's March to take place: the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913, the Silent Parade of 1917, and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/18/19
The Women’s March is riddled with divisions. But that doesn’t mean feminism is in crisis.
by Lauren Haumesser
Since the early 19th century, the women’s movement in the United States has broken along the lines of race, class, age and religion.
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SOURCE: The Lily
1/17/19
Five women’s marches throughout history that triggered political change
by Rachel Vogelstein and Rebecca Turkington
Throughout history, women’s movements around the world have translated mass collective action into political, social and economic change.
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SOURCE: Vox
1-22-17
The Women's Marches may have been the largest demonstration in US history
According to data collected by Erica Chenoweth at the University of Denver and Jeremy Pressman at the University of Connecticut, marches held in more than 500 US cities were attended by at least 3.3 million people.
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