Painter and Sweatt (and leafhoppers)

In 1950, Sweatt, a black man, was turned away by a college in Texas because of race.  He took it to the State, which created an “equal” college for blacks and tried to leave the entire situation as “separate but equal”, but that wasn’t good enough for him.   He took it to the Supreme…

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The Great Depression

My assignment for this week is to write about the causes and effects of the Great Depression.  The great depression was caused by the roaring twenties, when everybody made risky investments in the stock market. When the market showed signs of quavering, everybody tried to sell their stocks at once, causing the stock market to completely crash. …

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