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Resource Type: Website / HyperLink200,000 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: 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 / HyperLinkA Nation of Immigrants: Latino Stories
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this online reference page from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American history, students can read the stories of immig...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAfrican American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Photos gathered for use in the American Negro Exhibit at the Paris Exposition, consisting of portraits and scenes of education, ...Contributor: Library of CongressViews: 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 / HyperLinkAmerican Memory: The Learning Page Features - Women Pioneers
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: History & Culture, Music, American Democracy, History-Social Science and 3 additional..This Feature Presentation explores the stories of women who have forged ahead to make a better life for themselves, their fami...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAncestors in the Americas
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Immigration and Migration, United States History, History-Social ScienceAncestors in the Americas is a companion website for the PBS series by the same name and explores the history and stories of Asi...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 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 / HyperLinkBehind the Scenes of the March on Washington
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / HyperLinkBillie Holiday Is Born
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Music, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the life and work of jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday. A classroom activity is featu...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 / HyperLinkBrown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from the National Park Service, features information about the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Educ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCapturing History
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Geography, Visual ArtsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students study the political and economic reasons for the African-Americ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCentral High 40th Anniversary Web Site
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / 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 / HyperLinkChicago's Black Metropolis: Understanding History through a Historic Place
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceChicago's Black Metropolis: Understanding History through a Historic Place is a curriculum-oriented site concentrating on the ar...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCivil Rights Bill Passed, 73-27; Johnson Urges All to Comply; Dirksen Berates Goldwater
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCompeting Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this EDSITEment unit, Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, students will gain a better understanding of the diversi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCourt Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis Sanitation Workers
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis lesson, provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, relates to two clauses in the First Amendment in the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDecision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, appeared on March 6, 1857, and announced the U.S. Supreme Cou...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0