Contributor Alabama History Education Materials Collection

Update
01-01-2010
Content Type
Lesson Plan
Grade Level
Fourth grade, Sixth grade, Tenth grade
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Website
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Students will learn that Alabama was the site for four major POW camps beginning in 1943, hosting some 17,000 prisoners over the course of World War II. Students will learn about Aliceville, in west Alabama’s Pickens County, which was the first and the largest of these camps.