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Read the excerpt from "A Latina Judge’s Voice” by Sonia Sotomayor.Almost nine years later, we are waiting for a third appointment of a woman to both the Supreme Court and the New York Court of Appeals and of a second minority, male or female, preferably Hispanic, to the Supreme Court. In 1992 when I joined the bench, there were still two out of 13 circuit courts and about 53 out of 92 district courts in which no women sat. ©2002 by the Regents of the University of California.Reprinted from the La Raza Law Journal 13 Berkeley La Raza L.J. 87 (2002) By permission of the Regents of the University of California

Which sentence from "American Indian Civil Rights” best describes the conflict the author develops in the text?

Read the excerpt from "American Indian Civil Rights.”One of the most sweeping blows to the American Indian community occurred in 1830 when President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act. As a result, the government negotiated with tribes to move them to land west of the Mississippi River. The government then acquired their previously inhabited land. Some tribes reluctantly went along with the act. However, many did not want to abandon their homelands.

Read the excerpt from "The Danger of Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.This single story of Africa ultimately comes, I think, from Western literature. Now, here is a quote from the writing of a London merchant called John Lok, who sailed to west Africa in 1561 and kept a fascinating account of his voyage. After referring to the black Africans as "beasts who have no houses,” he writes, "They are also people without heads, having their mouth and eyes in their breasts.”Now, I’ve laughed every time I’ve read this. And one must admire the imagination of John Lok.

Read the excerpt from "Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Alice Walker.His voice you would recognize sooner than any other voice you have heard in this century—this in spite of the fact that certain municipal libraries, like the one in downtown Jackson, do not carry recordings of his speeches, and the librarians chuckle cruelly when asked why they do not.

Read the excerpt from "A Latina Judge’s Voice” by Sonia Sotomayor.Now in the last twenty plus years of my professional life, I have seen a quantum leap in the representation of women and Latinos in the legal profession and particularly in the judiciary. In addition to the appointment of the first female United States Attorney General, Janet Reno, we have seen the appointment of two female justices to the Supreme Court and two female justices to the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court of my home state. One of those judges is the Chief Judge and the other is a Puerto Riqueña, like I am. As of today, women sit on the highest courts of almost all of the states and of the territories, including Puerto Rico. One Supreme Court, that of Minnesota, had a majority of women justices for a period of time.

Read the excerpt from "Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Alice Walker.But add to all of these things the one thing that seems to me second to none in importance: He gave us back our heritage. He gave us back our homeland; the bones and dust of our ancestors, who may now sleep within our caring and our hearing. He gave us the blueness of the Georgia sky in autumn as in summer; the colors of the Southern winter as well as glimpses of the green of vacation-time spring. Those of our relatives we used to invite for a visit we now can ask to stay. . . . He gave us full-time use of our own woods, and restored our memories to those of us who were forced to run away, as realities we might each day enjoy and leave for our children.

Which excerpt from "Finding Unity in the Alabama Coal Mines” best supports the theme "When people work together through difficult times, they can impact future generations”?

Read the excerpt from "Finding Unity in the Alabama Coal Mines.”The UMWA’s efforts were so successful that they influenced practices in other trade unions as well. In 1901, arguments raised by UMWA members led to the repeal of discriminatory practices at the Birmingham Trades Council, the organization to which all unions in the city of Birmingham belonged.Two years later, in 1903, the coal companies began to assert significant power against the union, denying union contracts and instituting policies of hiring only non-union employees. In 1908, under the auspices of the Alabama Coal Operators Association, company owners voted to cut worker wages by seventeen percent.

Read the excerpt from "My First March.”"Exactly!” Mama said. "By marching, we’ll be letting the government know that we want those unfair laws to be changed. And while we march we’re going to chant, and after we chant, we’ll sing some songs. One way or another, we’re going to make sure the government hears our message.”

Read the excerpt from "My First March.”I had never seen so many buses in my life! Whether I looked through the front windshield or the window by my seat, an ocean of buses was all I could see. Yellow school buses, silver Greyhounds, and buses in all kinds of colors that didn’t have any writing on them. Mama said they were all going to the same place as us, which didn’t seem possible. What kind of place could hold all those people?

Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall.”He moves in darkness as it seems to me,Not of woods only and the shade of trees.He will not go behind his father's saying,And he likes having thought of it so wellHe says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."