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Students analyze the struggle for racial and gender equality and for the extension of civil liberties, the social and economic impact of the Great Depression, and the economic boom and social transformation of post-World War II United States.

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migration, the great depression

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great depression, migration, mobility, social studies
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Grade
6th - 8th
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Social Studies & History
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