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Of Mice and Men

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Understanding Jim Crow (Setting the Setting)

David Cunningham, chair of the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University, explores systems of racial separation and institutionalized segregation known as Jim Crow.

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Firsthand Accounts of the Great Depression

Read and listen to firsthand accounts of the shame, humiliation, and deprivation experienced by those who lived through the Great Depression.

Possibly related to: Negroes in the lineup for food at meal time in the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas.