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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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, American DemocracyThis lesson relates to the Preamble; to Article I, which establishes Congress s power to legislate; to Article II, which establi...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 / HyperLinkThe 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Gave Women the Right to Vote
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, American Democracy, U.S. ConstitutionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the League of Women Voters and the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Consti...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching With Documents: Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, American DemocracyThis Web site, from the Digital Classroom, holds numerous records from the National Archives and Records Administration relating...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSuspect 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStanding Up by Sitting Down: Early Bus Riders for Civil Rights
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, American DemocracyMore than ten years before Rosa Parks sat down on a Birmingham, Alabama, bus and refused to get up, and 15 years before Freedom ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSeparate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit 3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, American Democracy, U.S. ConstitutionIn this classroom activity from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, students will create posters that will he...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSeparate 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students make believe that the year is 1955 and they just heard about Parks' arrest. Students write newspaper editorials with th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRosa Parks: How I Fought for Civil Rights
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis resource, from Scholastic, features information about Rosa Parks and her act of civil disobedience in 1955. Students can re...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRosa Parks
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Rosa Parks and her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. A classroom ac...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRights-Minded: Investigating the Lives of People Who Influenced the Civil Rights Movement
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, 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: United States History, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, 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 / HyperLinkResources for Teaching American History: Civil Rights
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceMultimedia site includes teacher-selected primary sources, a video on Medgar Evers, elementary-school lessons on Rosa Parks and ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRemember the Ladies: The First Ladies
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, American DemocracyIni this unit of five lessons, from EDSITEment, students explore the ways in which First Ladies were able to shape the world wh...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Reel" Moments in Black History
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / HyperLinkProgressive Era: Separate but Equal
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Psychology, ElectivesThis Web page, part of the Jump Back in Time section of the America s Story Web site, describes how separate-but-equal polic...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: 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPresident Sees Marshall Take Supreme Court Seat
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, American DemocracyThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a justice of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0