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Portrait of Jessica Govea. Courtesy of the Govea Family. (NMAH)

How One Girl Helped Build a Latinx Civil Rights Movement

This dress, with a matching necklace and ruby red high heels, was worn by Cornell to her prom in 2018 (NMAH)

How Isabella Aiukli Cornell Made Prom Political

A quarantine sign used in Connecticut (NMAH)

How Failed Quarantines Led to 20th-Century Measles Outbreaks

Luisa Moreno stands on a balcony in Mexico City, 1927 (NMAH)

The Case of Luisa Moreno

Hopper and a colleague examine a sequence mechanism (NMAH)

Grace Under Pressure

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