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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: 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Nation of Immigrants: Latino Stories
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn 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 / HyperLinkAlabama 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAncestors in the Americas
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, Immigration and Migration, United States HistoryAncestors 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: 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBehind the Scenes of the March on Washington
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, 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, Visual Arts, Reading Comprehension, English-Language 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: 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCapturing History
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Visual Arts, GeographyIn 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: History-Social Science, United States History, 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: History-Social Science, United States HistoryChicago'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 / HyperLinkFree at Last: The Civil Rights Movement in the United States
Grades: 3 to 6Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / HyperLinkFrom Canterbury to Little Rock: The Struggle for Educational Equality for African Americans
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, The Civil Rights Movement, United States HistoryFrom Canterbury to Little Rock: The Struggle for Educational Equality for African Americans highlights two historic places and t...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkModern Era: Sunday Bloody Sunday
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, Psychology, United States History, ElectivesThis 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 / HyperLinkMurder of Emmett Till
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Economics, American Democracy, GeographyThis 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 / HyperLinkNative American Citizenship
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, American DemocracyThis 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 / HyperLinkNegro 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOn the Front Lines With the Little Rock 9
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / HyperLinkOrdinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, U.S. ConstitutionThis lesson, from EDSITEment, focuses on the individual men and women who embraced Martin Luther King, Jr.'s message of nonviole...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0