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Arkansas Troops Bar Negro Pupils; Governor Defiant
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out the N...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Birmingham Bomb Kills 4 Negro Girls in Church; Riots Flare; 2 Boys Slain
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how four children were killed when a bomb went off ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Martin Luther King Wins the Nobel Prize for Peace
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Civil Rights Bill Passed, 73-27; Johnson Urges All to Comply; Dirksen Berates Goldwater
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, American DemocracyThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Malcolm Knew He Was a "Marked Man"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Islam, United States History, ReligionThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, discusses an interview with Malcolm X, given the week before ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Alabama Police Use Gas and Clubs to Rout Negroes
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how Alabama state troopers and volunteer officers o...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Big Parade: On the Road to Montgomery
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how in 1965 more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrat...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0President Sees Marshall Take Supreme Court Seat
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a justice of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Suspect in Assassination of Dr. King Is Seized in London
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how authorities announced the capture in London of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Separate but Equal: The Law of the Land
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, American DemocracyThis resource, from the EDSITEment-reviewed National Museum of American History, features information about the landmark Supreme...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Dred Scott's Fight for Freedom
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis resource, from the EDSITEment-reviewed Africans in America Web site, features information about Dred Scott. Scott, a slave,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Dred Scott v. Sandford
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis resource, from the EDSITEment-reviewed Oyez Web site, focuses on the Dred Scott case. There is background information, a li...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Negro Sitdowns Stir Fear Of Wider Unrest in South
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how four black college students began a sit-in prot...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0President Sends Troops to Little Rock, Federalizes Arkansas National Guard; Tells Nation He Acted to Avoid An Anarchy
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how with 300 United States Army troops standing gua...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0400 U.S. Marshals Sent to Alabama as Montgomery Bus Riots Hurt 20; President Bids State Keep Order
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how a white mob attacked a busload of Freedom Ride...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, appeared on March 6, 1857, and announced the U.S. Supreme Cou...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Mississippi Gives Meredith Degree
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how James Meredith became the first African America...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0200,000 March for Civil Rights in Orderly Washington Rally; President Sees Gain for Negro
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how 200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Lesson Plan: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X -- A Common Solution?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this lesson, from Stanford University, students explore the ideological and political development of Martin Luther King, Jr. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Passion for Justice
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis resource, from Professor Lee D. Baker at Duke University, features a brief biography of Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Born in 1862,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0