The National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities are established by Lyndon Johnson

Mozart’s “Magic Flute” premieres in Vienna

American novelist Truman Capote born

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  To Kill A Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Boys Trial: Profiles in Courage

  Students study select court transcripts and other primary source material from the second Scottsboro Boys Trial of 1933, a continuation of the first trial in which two young white women wrongfully accused nine African-American youths of rape.

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Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” published

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  Hawthorne: Author and Narrator

  Compare the storyteller's voice with that of the writer, who was a contemporary of Whitman and Douglass.

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  Who Were the Foremothers of Women's Equality?

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