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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Poverty in America [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the numbers behind poverty in America in the 1950s. Read about those who were in poverty, where they lived, and find out if things have improved over the decades. [pdf]
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Digital History

Digital History: The African American as Sharecropper [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
After reading about the system of sharecropping or tenant farming for the African American in the South, look at poverty statistics for African Americans vs. whites between 1960 and 1990. Is there a corelation between the sharecropping...