8th grade Civics Capstone
Laura Towne
1. https://www.nps.gov/people/laura-towne.htm
2. https://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/lauratowne.html
3. https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/education/towne-laura/
4. https://www.uuworld.org/articles/towne-quiet-revolutionary
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
1. https://www.nps.gov/people/mary-ann-shadd-cary.htm
3. https://bwoaproject.org/shadd-cary/
4. https://www.neh.gov/article/voice-freedom
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
1. https://www.nps.gov/people/thomas-w-higginson.htm
2. https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/thomas-wentworth-higginson-1823-1911-correspondent/
3. https://www.masshist.org/features/abolition/higginsonbio
4. https://blog.oup.com/2025/02/thomas-wentworth-higginson-and-the-freedom-jubilee/
Clara Brown
1. https://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/2017/aunt_clara_brown.pdf
Octavius Catto
1. https://www.nps.gov/people/octavius-catto.htm
2. https://npg.si.edu/blog/american-tragedy-octavius-v-catto
3. https://catto.ushistory.org/catto-and-american-civil-rights/
4. https://www.mlb.com/history/negro-leagues/players/octavius-catto
Robert Smalls
1. https://www.nps.gov/people/robert-smalls.htm
2. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Smalls
3. https://picturingblackhistory.org/the-remarkable-life-of-robert-smalls/
