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Jacqueline Woodson is the author of nu- merous award-winning books, includ- POETS ing Last Summer With Maizon, I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, From the Note- Elizabeth Acevedo* books of Melanin Sun, and Miracle's * Boys. She started writing when she was Kwame Alexander young, but her fiction for kids didn't real- Maya Angelou ly click until she got older. That's when she realized that she could actually help Gwendolyn Brooks the younger generation simply through Mahogany L. Browne her words. That's why Woodson chooses subjects Nikki Giovanni that she thinks kids should be able to Nikki Grimes read about — even if they're topics that are hard to explain or uncomfortable to Angela Johnson talk about. For example, If You Come Terrence Hayes Softly is about an interracial ro- mance; Hush tells the story of a family Langston Hughes placed under the witness protection pro- Tony Medina gram; and Sweet, Sweet Memory depicts the way a young girl copes with her Walter Dean Myers grandfather's death. Visiting Day is a pic- Marilyn Nelson ture book about a little girl's trips to see * her father in prison. Jason Reynolds www.jacquelinewoodson.com Faith Ringgold Jacqueline.Woodson Carole B. Weatherford * @jackiewoodson Jaqueline Woodson jacqueline_woodson Richard Wright * Read more about this author Playing the Read-In bingo game? on the following pages... Woodson has books in these categories: Poetry/Biography/Picture Book “This is what’s most important to me — to show love in all its many forms.” ~ Jacqueline Woodson Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, and the NYT bestselling author of 28 ELIZABETH ACEVEDO is a NYT bestselling books. Kwame is the host of the literary author. She is the winner of the 2018 Na- variety/talk show, Bookish. tional Book Award for Young People’s Lit- erature, The Printz Award, the Boston www.kwamealexander.com Globe-Hornbook Award, and the Pura kwamealexanderbooks Belpré Award. @kwamealexander www.acevedowrites.com @AcevedoWrites Playing the Read-In bingo game? Alexander has books in these categories: Poetry/Picture Books/Nonfiction/New Playing the Read-In bingo game? Books/Books About Music/Love Story Acevedo has books in these categories: Poetry/New Books/Short Stories Mahogany L. Browne is unapologetic in her work as a spoken word poet, author, and activist. She uses her personal experience with addiction, racism, Jason Reynolds is a NYT bestselling sexism, and oppression to inspire her author, a Newbery Award & Printz Award own brand of shameless, authentic work. Honoree, National Book Award Honoree, Browne’s spoken word performances Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an create a platform through poetry for NAACP Image Award Winner, and women and girls to feel empowered and multiple Coretta Scott King honors. heard. www.JasonWritesBooks.com https://mobrowne.com jason.reynolds.37266 @themobrowne @jasonreynolds83 Playing the Read-In bingo game? Browne has books in the following Playing the Read-In bingo game? categories: Poetry/Non-Fiction/Picture Reynolds has books in these categories: Book/New Books Poetry/New Books/Short Stories .

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Honorary Degree Recipients 1977 – Present
Board of Trustees HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS 1977 – PRESENT Name Year Awarded Name Year Awarded Claire Collins Harvey, C‘37 Harry Belafonte 1977 Patricia Roberts Harris Katherine Dunham 1990 Toni Morrison 1978 Nelson Mandela Marian Anderson Marguerite Ross Barnett Ruby Dee Mattiwilda Dobbs, C‘46 1979 1991 Constance Baker Motley Miriam Makeba Sarah Sage McAlpin Audrey Forbes Manley, C‘55 Mary French Rockefeller 1980 Jesse Norman 1992 Mabel Murphy Smythe* Louis Rawls 1993 Cardiss Collins Oprah Winfrey Effie O’Neal Ellis, C‘33 Margaret Walker Alexander Dorothy I. Height 1981 Oran W. Eagleson Albert E. Manley Carol Moseley Braun 1994 Mary Brookins Ross, C‘28 Donna Shalala Shirley Chisholm Susan Taylor Eleanor Holmes Norton 1982 Elizabeth Catlett James Robinson Alice Walker* 1995 Maya Angelou Elie Wiesel Etta Moten Barnett Rita Dove Anne Cox Chambers 1983 Myrlie Evers-Williams Grace L. Hewell, C‘40 Damon Keith 1996 Sam Nunn Pinkie Gordon Lane, C‘49 Clara Stanton Jones, C‘34 Levi Watkins, Jr. Coretta Scott King Patricia Roberts Harris 1984 Jeanne Spurlock* Claire Collins Harvey, C’37 1997 Cicely Tyson Bernice Johnson Reagan, C‘70 Mary Hatwood Futrell Margaret Taylor Burroughs Charles Merrill Jewel Plummer Cobb 1985 Romae Turner Powell, C‘47 Ruth Davis, C‘66 Maxine Waters Lani Guinier 1998 Gwendolyn Brooks Alexine Clement Jackson, C‘56 William H. Cosby 1986 Jackie Joyner Kersee Faye Wattleton Louis Stokes Lena Horne Aurelia E. Brazeal, C‘65 Jacob Lawrence Johnnetta Betsch Cole 1987 Leontyne Price Dorothy Cotton Earl Graves Donald M. Stewart 1999 Selma Burke Marcelite Jordan Harris, C‘64 1988 Pearl Primus Lee Lorch Dame Ruth Nita Barrow Jewel Limar Prestage 1989 Camille Hanks Cosby Deborah Prothrow-Stith, C‘75 * Former Student As of November 2019 Board of Trustees HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS 1977 – PRESENT Name Year Awarded Name Year Awarded Max Cleland Herschelle Sullivan Challenor, C’61 Maxine D.
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Teaching Guide
CELEBRATE DIVERSITY WITH HARPERCOLLINS CHILDREN’S BOOKS Black History Month Classroom Kit About This Guide H a rperCollins Children’s Books is pleased to offer a variety of fiction and nonfiction books that explore African American h i s t o ry and culture. The fabric of the American populat i o n is becoming more ra c i a l ly and ethnically d ive rs e, and it is c rucial that children’s books have chara c t e rs t h at represent this. The following collection of African American l i t e rature is undoubtedly important for all children, b o t h because it provides recog n i z able histories and cultures f o r children of color and because it introduces new pers p e c t ive s f o r all children. This guide is designed to provide a spectrum of c u rricular activities and connections among the selected titles. CONTENTS Historical Fight for Freedom The fi rst two sections of this guide are orga n i zed by New! God Bless the Child H i s t o r i c a l titles and African American Biograp h i e s a n d By Billie Holiday and Arthur Herz og, Jr. explore slave history and the civil rights movement. The Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney books and suggested activities probe the notion of Barefoot: Escape on the freedom, and look at how slaves and abolitionists fought for Underground Railroad the freedom of black people. By Pamela Duncan Edwards Illustrated by Henry Cole Found Identity African American Biographies The next two sections include Le g en d s and Ar t titles and present African American art, poetry, and trad i t i o n a l tales.
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Gwendolyn Brooks 1917–2000
Name _____________________________ Class _________________ Date __________________ The Civil Rights Movement Biography Gwendolyn Brooks 1917–2000 WHY SHE MADE HISTORY Gwendolyn Brooks was an award-winning poet, novelist, and a leader of the Black Arts Movement. She was also the first African American poet to receive a Pulitzer Prize. As you read the biography below, think about the role Gwendolyn Brooks’ writing played in the civil rights movement. Why was her poetry significant? Bettmann/CORBIS © As African Americans worked to bring an end to discrimination, most still lived in poor inner city neighborhoods. The Black Power movement focused on the need for social and economic reforms. A Black Arts Movement also emerged to tell the story of African American life. Poet Gwendolyn Brooks was at the forefront of this movement. Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1917. Two months after her birth, her family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she would live for the rest of her life. Brooks was a shy child who developed an interest in writing. Her mother encouraged this interest, and teachers helped develop her talent. At an early age, Brooks was published in national magazines and newspapers. After graduation from high school, Brooks entered community college and received an associate’s degree. She worked at many different jobs, from maid to spiritual healer. Later she would write about these experiences. She was also involved in the Youth Council of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and helped found a club for young black artists and writers. Through this club, she met her future husband, poet Henry Blakely.
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Here in Harlem Walter Dean Myers HC: 978-0-8234-1853-4 • PB: 978-0-8234-2212-8 • Agesages 12 Up
Holiday House Educators’ Guide Here In Harlem Walter Dean Myers HC: 978-0-8234-1853-4 • PB: 978-0-8234-2212-8 • AgesAges 12 up About the Book Here are fi fty-four powerful and soulful fi rst-person poems, all written in the voices of residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and others. These poems capture the energy and resilience of a neighborhood and a people. Modeled after Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology, Here in Harlem brings to readers the rhyme and rhythm of the heart of a neighborhood. For Discussion ● Read through the table of contents. What can you tell about the people of Harlem from reading the list of names, ages, and occupations? ● These poems refl ect the lifestyles of the people of Harlem. What are the themes present throughout the volume? ● Who is Clara Brown? How does the author use her story throughout the book? What is the diff erence between poetry and prose? Find a poem that is clearly poetry and one that seems more like prose. Identify what elements make them like poetry or prose. ● Read these children’s poems: “Mali Evans, 12”; “Lois Smith, 12”; “Malcolm Jones, 16”; and “Lydia Cruz, 15.” These poems are about the hopes and dreams of the students. Can you relate to one poem more than another? Why? Do these poems refl ect your experience as a student? Which aspects did the poems capture well? Poorly? ● Myers says in his introduction: “I have written a poem that is an unabashed tribute to the poet W.
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Women's History Month Children's Books.Pdf
Books for Family Sharing Charles, Tami. Fearless Mary: Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver. Illus. by Claire Almon. J-Biography 388.3228 FIEL Set in Cascade, Montana, in 1895, this rip-roaring account tells the true-life tale of a Wild West paragon—the first African American woman to drive a stagecoach while fearlessly fending off outlaws and wild critters to safely deliver the mail. Clinton, Chelsea. She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World. Illus. by Alexandra Boiger. J-Biography 305.40922 CLIN Concise text and warm watercolor illustrations introduce 13 inspiring women who "did not take no for an answer," including Ruby Bridges, Maria Tallchief, Sonia Sotomayor, and more. She Persisted Around the World and She Persisted In Sports offer more profiles of remarkable individuals. Engle, Margarita. Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music. Illus. by Rafael López. J-Easy Based on the childhood of musician Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, this lyrical picture book describes how a young girl in 1930s Cuba strived to become a drummer, though reminded again and again that only boys play percussion, and ultimately broke traditional stereotypes to follow her dream. Harrison, Vashti. Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World. J-Biography 305.42 HARR Harrison’s one-page profiles and eye-catching portraits introduce 36 daring and resourceful women from throughout history and across the globe. Also check out the companion volume, Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History. Hubbard, Rita Lorraine. The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read. Illus. by Oge Mora. J-Biography 306.3 WALK Born enslaved in 1848 on an Alabama plantation and freed at age 15, Walker grew into adulthood and worked hard for decades to support her family before taking a literacy class and learning to read at the age of 116.
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Joyce Middle School Summer Reading 2014
Joyce Middle School Summer Reading 2014 Grade 6 My brother Sam is dead (J. & C. Collier) Slob (Ellen Potter) Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children (Ransom Riggs) After Tupac and D Foster (Jacqueline Woodson) Grade 7 Fever, 1793 (Laurie Halse Anderson) Avi (author, students can read any of his books) Things not seen (Andrew Clements) Hoot (Carl Hiaasen) Mike Lupica (author, students can read any of his books) Hoops (Walter Dean Myers) Slam (Walter Dean Myers) Grade 8 Students must read Wonder (R.J. Palacio) General Fiction 13 Reasons Why (Jay Asher) Looking for Alaska (John Green) Breathing Underwater (Alex Flinn) The Summer I Turned Pretty (Jenny Han) That Time I Joined the Circus (Howard) Sports Hoops of Steel (Foley) Going for the Record (Julie Swanson) Painting the Black (Deuker) Center field (Lipsyte) Heart of a Champion (Deuker) Mystery/Suspense Silent to the Bone (E.L. Konigsburg) The Name of the Star (Maureen Johnson) Where Things Come Back (John Corey Whaley) Stolen (Christopher) The Boy Who Couldn’t Die (Sleator) 1 Joyce Middle School Summer Reading 2014 Fantasy/Apocalyptic (End of the World) Maze Runner (Dashner) Scorpio Races (Stiefvater) Gone (Michael Grant) Shiver (Stiefvater) Divergent (Roth) Eleventh Plague (Hirsch) Historical Fiction Purple Heart (McCormick) Code Name Verity (Elizabeth Wein) Between Shades of Gray (Ruta Sepetys) Fever, 1793 (Anderson) Private Peaceful (Morpurgo) Grades 6 – 8 Language Based Special Education Program The One and Only Ivan (Katherine Applegate) Number the Stars ( Lois Lowry) 2 .
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Awards Appendix
Appendix A: Awards Jane Addams Book Award The Jane Addams Children’s Book Award has been presented annually since 1953 by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Jane Addams Peace Association to the children’s book of the preceding year that most effectively promotes the cause of peace, social justice and world community 1953 People Are Important by Eva Knox Evans (Capital) 1954 Stick-in-the-Mud by Jean Ketchum (Cadmus Books, E.M. Hale) 1955 Rainbow Round the World by Elizabeth Yates (Bobbs-Merrill) 1956 Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps (Knopf) 1957 Blue Mystery by Margot Benary-Isbert (Harcourt Brace) 1958 The Perilous Road by William O. Steele (Harcourt Brace) 1959 No Award Given 1960 Champions of Peace by Edith Patterson Meyer (Little, Brown) 1961 What Then, Raman? By Shirley L. Arora (Follett) 1962 The Road to Agra by Aimee Sommerfelt (Criterion) 1963 The Monkey and the Wild, Wild Wind by Ryerson Johnson (Abelard-Schuman) 1964 Profiles in Courage: Young Readers Memorial Edition by John F. Kennedy (Harper & Row) 1965 Meeting with a Stranger by Duane Bradley (Lippincott) 1966 Berries Goodman by Emily Cheney Nevel (Harper & Row) 1967 Queenie Peavy by Robert Burch (Viking) 1968 The Little Fishes by Erick Haugaard (Houghton Mifflin) 1969 The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig (T.Y. Crowell) 1970 The Cay by Theodore Taylor (Doubleday) 1971 Jane Addams: Pioneer of Social Justice by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown) 1972 The Tamarack Tree by Betty Underwood (Houghton Mifflin) 1973 The Riddle of Racism by S.
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Urban Renewal and Postwar African American Poetry By
“If The House Is Not Yet Finished”: Urban Renewal and Postwar African American Poetry By Nilofar Gardezi A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Lyn Hejinian, Chair Professor Eric Falci Professor Steven Lee Professor Waldo E. Martin Spring 2014 Abstract “If The House Is Not Yet Finished”: Urban Renewal and Postwar African American Poetry by Nilofar Gardezi Doctor of Philosophy in English University of California, Berkeley Professor Lyn Hejinian, Chair In my dissertation, I investigate the epic writings of Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Robert Hayden to tell the stories of black working class life and culture in postwar New York City, Chicago, and Detroit. I suggest that these writers’ modernist epics offer a counter-poetics to the “clean” modernism of urban renewal and, implicitly, lay bare the racial exclusionism foundational to not only urban renewal’s specific policies of segregation and displacement but also to its aesthetic claims to architectural avant-gardism and newness. This was a time of urban renewal-slum clearance programs that displaced and disrupted black communities—more specifically, a time when race, modernism, and geography all collided in urban renewal—and I argue that we can see both urban renewal and the poetic responses to it in terms of aesthetic modernism. In my first chapter, “Alternative Geographies of Community in Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred,” I claim that Hughes’s poem about the struggle for home and belonging in postwar Harlem invokes the importance of black self-determination and action through the democratic movements of bebop jazz and montage.
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Dr. Brian Gazaille
English 360: African American Writers Time, Memory, and Identity: Black Women Writers Instructor: Dr. Brian Gazaille (he/him/his) CRN: 31990 Office: PLC 206 Term: Spring 2019 Office Hours: MW 11:00-12:30, and by appointment Location: 107 ESL Phone: 541-346-5935 Time: MWF 10:00-10:50 Email: [email protected] (please give 48 hours for a response!) Course Description This class investigates how black women writers of the twentieth century have taken up the themes of time, memory, and identity. The writers we will explore—Frances E. W. Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Ntzoake Shange, and Lucille Clifton, among others—conceived of literature as remembering. Poems and stories were not just artworks but places in which to recover silenced voices and reflect on the intractable legacies of patriarchy and racism. As Shange so succinctly puts it in her first novel, Sassafrass, Cypress, & Indigo, literature can be made to represent the “the slaves who were ourselves.” Using the short fiction, poetry, and critical work of the writers noted above, we will examine how black women writers adapted literary forms to wrestle with past and present forms of race- and gender-based oppression. This course counts toward UO’s Multicultural Requirement (Identity, Pluralism, and Tolerance). It also counts for two upper- division categories in English Major II: (1) Literature, 1789-Present, and (2) Race, Ethnicity, and Empire. For students in Major I, the class counts for (1) Literature, 1789-Present or (2) Folklore, Women’s Literatures,
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Dave Gergen to Dave Parker Re
MEf\IOR/\NIHJM THE WHITE HOUSE WASIIINGTON May 3, 1972 MEMORANDUM FOR: DAVE PARKER FROM: DAVE GERGEN SUBJECT: Prominent Wome~l Last year, you were int( rested in some recomrrj "c1ations of women who might be invited to a special dinner with the President. That idea never got off the ground, and I understand that there are no plans for such a dinner at :lis time. In looking through our past files, however, I have come upon the list which we compiled at that time, and it occurs to me that there Inay still be a number of opportunities when you would want to have prominent wom.en invited to st~~ dinners on an individual basis. For that purpose: I am sending along to you a copy of some other li i~S we once compiled. It would probably be an easy task to come up with additional nm, ~cs if you so desire. cc: Barbara Franklin r-------------------------------------------------------------- Acaflemic Hanna Arendt - Politic'al Scientist/Historian Ar iel Durant - Histor ian Gertrude Leighton - Due to pub lish a sem.ina 1 work on psychiatry and law, Bryn Mawr Katherine McBride - Retired Bryn Mawr President Business Buff Chandler - Business executive and arts patron Sylvia Porter - Syndicated financial colun1.nist Entertainment Mar ian And ",r son l Jacqueline I.. upre - British cellist Joan Gan? Cooney - President, Children1s Television Workshop; Ex(,cutive Producer of Sesaxne St., recently awarded honorary degre' fron'l Oberlin Agnes DeMille - Dance Ella Fitzgerald Margot Fonteyn - Ballerina Martha Graham. - Dance Melissa Hayden - Ballerina Helen Hayes Katherine Hepburn Jv1ahilia Jackson Mary Martin 11ary Tyler Moore Leontyne Price Martha Raye B(~verley Sills - Has appeared at "\V1-I G overnmcnt /Politics ,'.
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Jazz After Dinner
Jazz After Dinner © 2006 State University of New York Press, Albany Jazz After Dinner On a snowy evening I shall feel his sounds, Quietly moaning, inviting cold air to listen, Call pleasure from golden keys. Old friends Will kiss their company, sit to relax and dream. And music, crying, like an elderly man That sometimes after sunrise greets morning Will pervade the world, profusely fill That evening and me, celebrating life. 3 © 2006 State University of New York Press, Albany For Our Mothers For our mothers Born of humble ancestral origins, Suffering bondage and Enduring the shackles of slavery And nurturing a people and a Country with power and strength And glory and greatness; For our mothers, Queens of the universe Who give us beauty And sweetness and light Radiating with positive energy And spiritual illumination And making us rise to all Propitious occasions wherever They may be in the world; For our mothers Whose gifts to America were Phillis Wheatley and Frances Harper, Elizabeth Keckley and Zora Neale Hurston And Margaret Walker and Gwendolyn Brooks And Alice Walker and Lorraine Hansberry And Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni; 4 © 2006 State University of New York Press, Albany For our mothers who also shared Mary McLeod Bethune and Dorothy Height, Patricia Harris and Barbara Jordan, Mary Berry and Ruth Simmons And Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor And Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King And Oprah Winfrey and Suzan-Lori Parks; For our mothers walking with faith spreading Joy, sleeping with tears from painful years, Shouting when unhappy, praying when the world seemed Hopeless, trying always to be architects for a better World, one that will heal all the people All the sons and daughters and their many generations; For our mothers Pillars of the community And Saviors of the world Who love us.
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CELEBRATING SIGNIFICANT CHICAGO WOMEN Park &Gardens
Chicago Women’s Chicago Women’s CELEBRATING SIGNIFICANT CHICAGO WOMEN CHICAGO SIGNIFICANT CELEBRATING Park &Gardens Park Margaret T. Burroughs Lorraine Hansberry Bertha Honoré Palmer Pearl M. Hart Frances Glessner Lee Margaret Hie Ding Lin Viola Spolin Etta Moten Barnett Maria Mangual introduction Chicago Women’s Park & Gardens honors the many local women throughout history who have made important contributions to the city, nation, and the world. This booklet contains brief introductions to 65 great Chicago women—only a fraction of the many female Chicagoans who could be added to this list. In our selection, we strived for diversity in geography, chronology, accomplishments, and ethnicity. Only women with substantial ties to the City of Chicago were considered. Many other remarkable women who are still living or who lived just outside the City are not included here but are still equally noteworthy. We encourage you to visit Chicago Women’s Park FEATURED ABOVE and Gardens, where field house exhibitry and the Maria Goeppert Mayer Helping Hands Memorial to Jane Addams honor Katherine Dunham the important legacy of Chicago women. Frances Glessner Lee Gwendolyn Brooks Maria Tallchief Paschen The Chicago star signifies women who have been honored Addie Wyatt through the naming of a public space or building. contents LEADERS & ACTIVISTS 9 Dawn Clark Netsch 20 Viola Spolin 2 Grace Abbott 10 Bertha Honoré Palmer 21 Koko Taylor 2 Jane Addams 10 Lucy Ella Gonzales Parsons 21 Lois Weisberg 2 Helen Alvarado 11 Tobey Prinz TRAILBLAZERS 3 Joan Fujisawa Arai 11 Guadalupe Reyes & INNOVATORS 3 Ida B. Wells-Barnett 12 Maria del Jesus Saucedo 3 Willie T.
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