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High school activist Aurora D'Angelo is involuntarily committed to a Chicago psychiatric institution.

Date: 1927

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Calling for the freedom of revolutionary anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, D'Angelo leaps on a truck and calls her fellow high school classmates to march to City Hall. The Chicago police uses tear gas to disperse the crowd, and D'Angelo is arrested for civil unrest and then later committed.