"Migrant Mother", 1936, by Dorothea Lange

Online Encyclopedias and Databases

• eLibrary

  • User Name: Crusaders

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• WorldBookAdvanced (Useful for maps and other climate/geographical information)

  • User Name: Crusaders

  • Password: Crusaders

• Proquest: Black Freedom Struggle in the United States

  • Open Access

• Blooms Literature (Infobase)

  • User Name: Crusaders1

  • Password: Crusaders1

• Library of Congress

  • Open Access

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