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  1. In celebration of #Juneteenth, discover the history of the #AbolitionistMovement and the fight for #CivilRights with The Abolitionists Interview Collection, featuring interviews from the #AmericanExperience miniseries: americanarchive.org/special_co

  2. "There are those who believe that if you will only #legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The #Democratic idea, however, had been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them." – #WilliamJenningsBryan

    Will we ever fundamentally change?

    #TheGildedAgePBS #AmericanExperience #PBS

    #link: pbs.org/video/the-gilded-age-n

    #link: youtu.be/yjpYzFtxfjU?si=n5F61B

  3. "It's not your own fault. It is the fault of the way we have organized our #economy, the way we've allowed certain things to develop unchecked and uncontrolled. There's no reason for anybody to be poor in #America." – #ProgressAndPoverty, 1879, by #HenryGeorge

    We've long known yet nothing fundamentally has changed.

    #TheGildedAgePBS #PBS #AmericanExperience

    #link: pbs.org/video/the-vote-part-1-

    #link: youtu.be/yjpYzFtxfjU?si=3SwIhg

  4. "...#Workers begin to say, 'If I, as a member of this #society lack the ability to pay my bills, and to feed my family, then I am not a free #citizen of a healthy #republic.'" (the next line is white #violence ignoring #slavery, a common theme in #PBS #documentaries).

    #TheGildedAge #AmericanExperience

    "#Gilded is not golden. Gilded has the sense of a patina covering something else...the rot underneath.

    Nothing, fundamentally, has changed.

    pbs.org/video/the-gilded-age-n

    youtu.be/yjpYzFtxfjU?si=odhcXI