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Something to ponder as you head out to vote today, for free. In the Library's Rosa Parks Papers collection, there's a receipt for the poll tax she had to pay to vote in Alabama in 1956. Poll taxes, a Jim Crow-era voter suppression tool, were not abolished federally until 1964.

It's the Library's birthday. 🥰 Looking pretty good for 224, don't you think? Hopefully we'll continue to be a beacon of knowledge and truth, a venue for art and culture, and a maker of smiles and wonder for at LEAST another 224 years.

This Veterans Day, let's take a moment to remember the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs. They were the first American women trained to fly military aircraft, but were considered civil servants at the time, not military. 🧵

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s signature project, “You Are Here,” includes an open invitation from the public to participate. It’s simple: What would you write in response to the landscape around you? 🧵

Something to ponder as you head out to vote today, for free. In the Library's Rosa Parks Papers collection, there's a receipt for the poll tax she had to pay to vote in Alabama in 1956. Poll taxes, a Jim Crow-era voter suppression tool, were not abolished federally until 1964.

It's the Library's birthday. 🥰 Looking pretty good for 224, don't you think? Hopefully we'll continue to be a beacon of knowledge and truth, a venue for art and culture, and a maker of smiles and wonder for at LEAST another 224 years.

This Veterans Day, let's take a moment to remember the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs. They were the first American women trained to fly military aircraft, but were considered civil servants at the time, not military. 🧵

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s signature project, “You Are Here,” includes an open invitation from the public to participate. It’s simple: What would you write in response to the landscape around you? 🧵