PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: All About Community
Use these ARTHUR activities to help children understand themselves and those around them. Topics include self-esteem, understanding others, and cultural diversity.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Community & Self Help, Making of African American Identity:v. 3
An interview illustrating some of the ways community functioned in the lives of African Americans. It explores how external pressures of racism brought African Americans together to form fraternal organizations and entire towns.
Library of Congress
Loc: Experiencing War: African Americans: Fighting Two Battles
Online personnel narratives by African American soldiers who participated in World War II.
Digital History
Digital History: Race
Read about the racial unrest in the turbulent times right after World War I when African Americans were moving north and black veterans were demanding their civil rights. Find out about the violent race riot in Tulsa in 1921, and the...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Current Events and Social Issues
This course outline offers resources for studying controversial social issues of both the present and past.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Unbiased Language
Gives guidelines to sensitive language by presenting preferred substitute words or phrases for potentially offensive ones. Covers sexism, race, age, sexual orientation, disabilities, and language that patronizes, demeans, excludes or...
Digital History
Digital History: The Origins of New World Slavery
Read about the initial slow introduction of slave labor into the colonies, which accelerated because of the slaves' knowledge of growing crops, and the decline in the institution of indentured servitude.
Digital History
Digital History: American Slavery in Comparative Perspective
A very interesting look at the similarities and differences between the treatment of slaves in Latin America and the Caribbean and the slaves in the American South. Read about why a crucial difference was the concept of race between the...
Scholastic
Scholastic History Mystery: Civil Rights Movement 1: Coretta Scott King
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery person, Coretta...
Scholastic
Scholastic History Mystery: Roaring '20S: Ossian Sweet
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery person, Ossian Sweet.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Racism in the Media
In this video from Wide Angle, an Afro-Brazilian model discusses the predominance of whites in the Brazilian advertising industry.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: At the University of Brasilia
Wide Angle video addresses the controversy surrounding affirmitive action and racial quotas at the University of Brasilia. [3:11]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Complications of Identity
Wide Angle video tells the story of two identical twins, one of whom was classified as white and the other as black, highlighting the difficulty in defining race in Brazilian society. [2:53]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Race and Politics
In this Wide Angle video, one of Brazil's few black senators discusses racial discrimination in Brazilian governmental, political and economic life.
University of Virginia
U of Virginia: Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Participants in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study were never told that they had syphilis. Instead, the doctors and scientists said they had "bad blood." Find out what took place during this study, and the social and political consequences...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Changing Attitudes in America
A collection of lesson plans that help teachers examine diversity, institutional racism, and other topics in social justice.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: School to Work: Ethics in the Workplace
Students can become involved in "thorny scenarios" that showcase the need for various workplace ethics such as honesty, personal responsibility, positive attitude, teamwork, and professionalism. The site offers a video-based learning...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Discrimination
An encyclopedic definition of discrimination, an examination of the many different types, and a discussion of different theories.
Friesian School
Fresian.com: Stereotypes
This site gives an essay regarding various prejudices. Very informative and easy to understand.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Affirmative Action and the Usa
In this video from Wide Angle, two American NAACP lawyers arrive to advise Brazilian civil rights organizations, leading to a discussion of differences between race relations in the U.S. and Brazil.
PBS
Pbs: Culture Shock: Huck Finn in Context
This site features information on themes from Huck Finn. You will find activities and discussion questions to accompany the different sections.
Other
Western Michigan University: Timeline of Civil Rights History
Timeline showing important events in civil rights history around the world from 1884-1968.
Other
Children of the Camps: Internment History
An overview of the history of people of Japanese ancestry who were confined to internment camps during World War II. There is a timeline of events and links to original documents.
Other
Eliminating Racism in the Classroom
This article provides some insight into ways to teach children about the negative effects of racism and the importance of doing that.