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CreditsCanoers enjoy a paddle in the Anacostia River near Kingman Island during the 2012 Kingman Island Bluegrass Festival. Photograph by Susana Raab, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
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CreditsTwenty cent stamp honoring Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Civil War surgeon and advocate of women's rights, first issued in 1982. Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
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CreditsPhoto of Barbara Smith at a National Gay Rights March,1993. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Ron Simmons. © Ron Simmons
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CreditsHazel Dickens (right) performs at the 1978 Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s Coal Miners & Oil Workers program. Photo by Eric Herter, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives.
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CreditsDr. JoGayle Howard with Giant Panda and Laparoscopy Equipment. 1999. Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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CreditsSarah Winnemucca photographed by Norval H. Busey. 1883. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
