Alex Baugh

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@Kileigh
Reading Comment Peer Reply 5:
The Supreme Court ruling of Brown v. Board of Education unanimously ruled that segregation be banned in schools.

#hist2110

@Ajaramillo233
Reading Comment Peer Reply 4:
Fat Man was the one that used Plutonium and Little Boy was the one that used Uranium

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@isaacgarcia135
Reading Comment Peer Reply 3:
I would believe that this is related to the concept of "last hired, first fired", where people of colour were often fired first.

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@hgutierrez24
Reading Comment Peer Reply 2:
In George Takei's biographical graphic novel, They Called Us Enemy, he said that there were also Japanese internment camps as far away as Arkansas.

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@Kileigh
Reading Comment Peer Reply 1:
It did to radiation sickness in Alamogordo, which resulted in several deaths.

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Reading Comment 10:
Georgia O'Keeffe, an Abiquiu resident, was one of New Mexico's most influential artists.

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Reading Comment 9:
The first victims of the nuclear bomb were in Alamogordo, whose residents were exposed to the radiation.

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Reading Comment 8:
White Sands, New Mexico became the site of many rocket and missile tests, even bringing in German scientists.

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Reading Comment 7:
New Mexico is rich in uranium, which led to extensive mining to create more nuclear weapons.

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Reading Comment 6:
With wartime industry moving West during WW2, New Mexico saw an economic boost during this time.

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