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Searchers, The
Starring John Wayne and directed by John Ford, The Searchers is one of the most haunting and influential representations of Native Americans in Hollywood cinema. Although the film received mixed reviews when first released in May 1956, ...
- Part I: U.S. Census Essays
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- Hernández v. Texas (1954)
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- Montana v. United States (1981)
- Nishikawa v. Dulles (1958)
- Patterson v. Alabama (1935)
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- Ricci v. DeStefano (2009)
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- Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
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