Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Ph.D. Intended Audience: 1st-12th grades (lesson plan can be adapted for selected grade level) Overview: Less than sixty years ago, our country operated under a system of legalized segregation and oppression. Schools were separate and unequal and we had two nations—one black and one white—one oppressed and the other free. Even…
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*This was reposted from http://magazine.loyola.edu/issue/opinion/6080/8-things-to-consider-for-black-history-month By Brigid Darragh February 4, 2014 The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has selected Civil Rights in America as this year’s theme to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Signed into law on July 2, 1964, by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Civil Rights…
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