摘要: Linda was very angry that she tore the letter into pieces.` 9.

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  In 1896,36-year-old Helga Estby and her 18-year-old daughter, Clara, walked across America.Their 3,500-mile   1   from Spokane to Manhattan was physically discouraging.Dressed in long skirts and thin leather shoes,   2   only a small bundle of belongings(物品), the women found their endurance and courage   3   daily by tramps(徒步旅行), rattlesnake(响尾蛇), deserts, snowy mountain passes and flooded rivers.

  The greatest hardship,   4  , is shown in the title of Linda Lawrence Hunt's book, Bold Spirit:Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America.The woman's   5   to leave her family-including two children younger than 4-for seven months   6   such anger and grief that her daughters,   7   Estby's death in 1942,   8   their mother's writings about her incredible journey.

  The 1893 depression(大萧条)had left the Estby family   9   seemingly insurmountable(不可克服的)bills(账单)."   10   on paying taxes, Helga was ready to do anything to   11   the Mica Creek farm and home built by her husband, Ole, for their family of nine children," Hunt writes.A $10,000 award for being the first woman to travel unaccompanied(无陪伴的)by a   12   across the country   13   Helga from her Eastern Washington home.The journey was to   14   women's hardiness and courage.

  Hunt   15   learned of the trip from an eighth-grader's seven-page   16   in the Washington State History Day contest.Grandma Walks From Coast To Coast was   17   on two newspaper clippings(剪报)about the boy's great-great-grandmother; they were the only things saved when Estby's daughters burned her   18  .Hunt constructed her story from newspaper accounts, historical societies' records, public   19  ,and what little information and memories   20  .

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journey

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tour

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voyage

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loaded with

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carrying

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checked

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tested

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attempt

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paying

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help

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horse

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article

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written

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reported

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belongings

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writings

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diaries

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reports

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parks

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libraries

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schools

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places

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remained

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stayed

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lost

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disappointed

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  American grade 3 student Linda Brown had to walk a long way through a railway yard to get to her school in Topeka, Kansas.There was another school closer to home-  1   Linda was black and this school was   2   white children only.Then her   3   made a decision that ended in a court case which   4   US society forever.

  The decision was simple:Linda was to   5   in the nearby all-white school.After the school   6   her, Mr.Brown brought a charge against the local education department.

  The case made it all the   7   to the US Supreme Court. On May 17, 1954, the court   8   that "Separate educational facilities are unequal." This historic ruling ended racial segregation(种族隔离)by   9   black children to go to the same schools as white children, and this   10   equal treatment for blacks and whites.

  Thanks to the Brown ruling, from the late 1950s segregation was   11   on a much wider scale.Buses, beaches, jobs, housing, voting-black people had equal rights   12   white people in most areas of society.The ruling   13   helped improve rights for women and the disabled.

  Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton said:"Brown was the most important court decision in US   14  ." In other countries, these problems.  15   have been solved through violence, she added.

  To   16   the 50th anniversary of the Brown decision, a museum was opened at Linda Brown's old school.  17   get to walk through the "Tunnel of Courage", in   18   they are surrounded by photos of   19   crowds and barking dogs.This gives them a taste of the hardships that Brown   20   at the whites-only school.

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father

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life

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shouting

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walking

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working

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faced

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expected

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hoped

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missed

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