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1970: Alice Walker first hears of the writer Zora Neale Hurston, a long-forgotten African-American writer of the Harlem Renaissance. She comes to admire Hurston’s gift for giving voice to poor black women, and determines to read all her work. Today: Because of Walker’s efforts, Hurston biographer Robert Hemenway, and others, all of Hurston’s work is in print, and widely anthologized and taught.

1973: The United States Supreme Court declares that forbidding abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy is unconstitutional. Prior to this, abortions are illegal and...

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