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Chicago History Museum

Encyclopedia of Chicago: Charity Organization Societies

For Students 9th - 10th
As urban populations increased along with poverty in urban areas, charities began to offer help. Read about the Charity Organization Society that attempted to coordinate charitiable giving. Read about the evolution of the coordination of...
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: A New Civil Rights Movement

For Students 5th - 8th
A very brief overview of the inception of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s, its successes and failures into the 1960s, and a prediction of despair in the 1970s.