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["Lynching" the Harvard Lampoon]

Description: Photograph of a lynching done by the Harvard Lampoon. The physical image is completely damaged by vinegar syndrome, but a group of people surround looking at the deceased man. A man kneeling while holding the rope and the tree can be seen.
Date: 1942
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Gay Republicans protest convention treatment" article]

Description: An article from The Dallas Morning News written by Todd J. Gillman. The piece covers the rally held by the Log Cabin Republicans of Texas protesting their unfair treatment from Republican Convention leaders as well as from spokesman Robert Black, who likened the group to the KKK.
Date: June 1998
Creator: Gillman, Todd J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: DFD Discriminati]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 6pm.
Date: September 19, 1988
Duration: 46 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Uncovered Papers Show Past Government Efforts to Drive Gays From Jobs" article, May 21, 2014]

Description: An article, written by Matt Apuzzo for The New York Times, about government attempts to fire gay and lesbian employees. It includes memos and documents found by Charles C. Francis that show the history of government agencies, including the FBI, and their leaders.
Date: March 20, 2014
Creator: Apuzzo, Matt
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Pickets]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a restaurant in San Antonio refusing service to African-Americans.
Date: April 24, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: News briefs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a rumor in a Fort Worth neighborhood that a home in a white neighborhood had been sold to African Americans. Neighbors protested until the rumor was found to not be true.
Date: October 25, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Poster]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about posters being placed around the city advertising the end to discrimination in the work field.
Date: December 26, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Women's Equity Action League suit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Women's Equity Action League petitioning the Equal Opportunity Commission in regards to discrimination by the Dallas Transit system.
Date: September 7, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Transit descrimination]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Women's Equity Commission charging the Dallas Transit System to the Equal Opportunity Commission.
Date: 1972-09-07T24:00:00
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: WEAL]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, concerning the Women's Equity Action League (W. E. A. L.) charging Dallas County with sex discrimination.
Date: October 12, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Americans with Disabilities Act and Emergency Preparedness and Response

Description: The Americans with Disabilities Act provides broad nondiscrimination protection for individuals with disabilities in employment, public services, and public accommodation and services operated by private entities. Although the ADA does not include provisions specifically discussing its application to disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, its nondiscrimination provisions are applicable to emergency preparedness and responses to disasters. For example, this would mean that emergency planning shoul… more
Date: July 21, 2006
Creator: Jones, Nancy Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Statutory Language and Recent Issues

Description: The Americans with Disabilities Act, the ADA, provides broad nondiscrimination protection in employment, public services, public accommodations and services operated by public entities, transportation, and telecommunications for individuals with disabilities. The Supreme Court has decided fifteen ADA cases including four cases in the 2001-2002 Supreme Court term. This report will summarize the major provisions of the ADA and will discuss selected recent issues, including the Supreme Court cases… more
Date: January 21, 2003
Creator: Jones, Nancy Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Requirements Concerning the Provision of Interpreters by Hospitals and Doctors

Description: The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities by places of public accommodations. A common question is whether this prohibition requires medical doctors and hospitals to provide an interpreter when they have a patient with a hearing disability. This requirement varies depending upon the situation presented but situations may arise where there is an obligation to provide an interpreter.
Date: July 14, 2006
Creator: Jones, Nancy Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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