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Harvey Milk's Stand Against LGBT Oppression

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We chose the subject of Harvey Milk, and his stand against LGBT oppression, because we had a personal connections to the LGBT community. We also wanted to expand our knowledge of the subject and how they came to be as open as they are today. We constructed the research portion upon Harvey by distributing the work evenly among ourselves. We did this by assigning a certain number of sources to all of us to keep the workload fair throughout our group. We eventually put all of our information together to form our board/project. All students were required to complete an exhibit for the project. Our group created our project by researching documents that were created around the 1970’s, around the time Milk became a public official and took his

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