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Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Reel" Moments in Black History
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis Web page, from CNN, features links to a series of video clips that depict four important events in black history. Clips inc...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBehind the Scenes of the March on Washington
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from National Public Radio, features information on Martin Luther King Jr. s legendary I Have a Dream Speech an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNative American Citizenship
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: United States History, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis page, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, focuses on significant events in American history and culture associ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCentral High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated in 1957.
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.After viewing some footage from the actual event, students jot down thoughts and feelings of the Little Rock Nine. Students then...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCentral High 40th Anniversary Web Site
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis Web site, from Centralhigh57.org, commemorates the 40th anniversary of one of America s most important civil rights events-...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRights-Minded: Investigating the Lives of People Who Influenced the Civil Rights Movement
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social Science, American DemocracyIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students expand their knowledge and understanding of the Civil Rights ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRevisiting 'Separate but Equal': Examining School Segregation 45 Years After Brown v. Board of Education
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social Science, American DemocracyIn this two-day lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students examine the struggle for desegregation during the Civ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMurder of Emmett Till
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geography, Economics, United States History, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis PBS Teacher s Guide accompanies the film and Web site titled The Murder of Emmett Till. The film offers insights into top...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOn the Front Lines With the Little Rock 9
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from the PBS Kids WayBack feature, provides information about The Little Rock Nine. The page features informati...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFree at Last: The Civil Rights Movement in the United States
Grades: 3 to 6Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis ThinkQuest offers a collection of informational pages on the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Students can find ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArkansas Troops Bar Negro Pupils; Governor Defiant
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out the N...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBirmingham Bomb Kills 4 Negro Girls in Church; Riots Flare; 2 Boys Slain
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how four children were killed when a bomb went off ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlabama Police Use Gas and Clubs to Rout Negroes
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how Alabama state troopers and volunteer officers o...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNegro Sitdowns Stir Fear Of Wider Unrest in South
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how four black college students began a sit-in prot...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPresident Sends Troops to Little Rock, Federalizes Arkansas National Guard; Tells Nation He Acted to Avoid An Anarchy
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how with 300 United States Army troops standing gua...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink400 U.S. Marshals Sent to Alabama as Montgomery Bus Riots Hurt 20; President Bids State Keep Order
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how a white mob attacked a busload of Freedom Ride...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWomen of the West Museum: This Shall be the Land for Women - Timeline
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: United States History, Electives, Sociology, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis Web page is part of a virtual exhibition entitled This Shall be the Land for Women: The Struggle for Western Women s Suffr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkModern Era: Sunday Bloody Sunday
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Psychology, United States History, Electives, History-Social ScienceThis Web page, part of the Jump Back in Time section of the America s Story Web site, describes the 1965 march from Selma to M...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Civil Rights Era
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, documents the lives of African Americans during the Civil Rights...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0