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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  9/3/2020
  

  Good Trouble’ In A White Flight Suburb: Oak Grove High Teens Confront Racism

  by Ashton Pittman

  Black Lives Matter protests organized by high school students near Hattiesburg, Mississippi are responding to inequities created by the growth of white flight suburbs after "Brown v. Board of Education," when manipulated city and school district boundaries and private "segregation academies" helped whites to hoard resources and educational opportunity.

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• 5/3/2020
  

  Youth Crises Past and Present: Learning from the New Deal and Eleanor Roosevelt

  by Robert Cohen

  It is time to start demanding a successor to the National Youth Administration to meet the educational and economic needs of students--and to ask who in Washington will carry the torch that Eleanor Roosevelt raised during the Depression decade as the champion of low income youth.    

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• 2/27/18
  

  Why Shouldn't Kids Lead the Charge on Gun Safety?

  by Kathleen Bachynski, Angela Turi, and Alison Bateman-House

  They've led on public health before. 

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  3-22-14
  

  What medieval Europe did with its teenagers

  But a few hundred years ago northern Europe took a particularly harsh line, sending children away to live and work in someone else's home.