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Digital History: Simple Justice HandoutDigital History: Simple Justice Handout
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Digital History
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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Handouts & References
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1240L
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Digital History: Simple Justice

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Follow the civil rights quest for integrated schools from the beginning in 1849 through the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. the Topeka Board of Education and the struggle that ensued for decades following in the most reluctant school districts and regions in the U.S..

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