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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: James Farmer

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features James Farmer, an American civil rights activist who, as a leader of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), helped shape the civil rights movement through his nonviolent activism and...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Edmund Pettus Bridge

For Students 9th - 10th
This bridge across the Alabama River is noted for being the site of a bloody encounter during a civil rights march in 1965, an event influential in the passage of that year's Voting Rights Act.
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Docsteach: Reasons for Westward Expansion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will examine a variety of documents that reference reasons why Americans living in the East migrated west of the Mississippi immediately before, during, and right after the Civil War. Documents cover the mining industry, new...

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