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Landmarks of American Democracy: From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike
This one-week workshop was offered in 2004 for K-12 schoolteachers and in 2005 for community college faculty. The program was hosted by Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi and Rhodes College and the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. These summer workshops were funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Landmark photos and descriptions, lesson plans, and other resources are available on the RESOURCES page.
   
 

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