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PBS

Pbs: The Murder of Emmett Till: People & Events: Lynching in America

For Students 9th - 10th
Article summarizes the impact of lynching on African Americans and the events and people related to the issue.
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Article
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: The Civil Rights Movement: 1919 1960s

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides an overview of the Civil Rights Movement in America between 1919 and the 1960s with detailed discussion on racial equality, nonviolence and passive resistance, and segregation.
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Handout
Black Past

Black Past: Barnett, Ida Wells

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography details the life and journalistic career of African American women's rights activist Ida B. Wells Barnett.