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Photo from the Library of Congress: Collins, Marjory, photographer. Lititz, Pennsylvania. Calf about to be slaughtered at Lutz’s slaughterhouse. Pennsylvania Lititz United States Lancaster County, 1942. Nov. Photograph.

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In a lawsuit about a slaughterhouse that once stood at the Alabo site, the U.S. Supreme Court first interpreted the 14th Amendment, which later became pivotal in civil rights rulings, and led to four little 9th Ward girls desegregating the first public schools in the Deep South.

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