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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Trust in the Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Citizen complaints demonstrate that China's legal system has not yet fully gained the people's trust in this Wide Angle video.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Special Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Multimedia collection of video, primary text documents and audio on Civil Rights, especially Brown vs. Board of Education.
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University of Missouri

Famous Trials: The Mississippi Burning Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
Updated detailed account of the case of United States versus Cecil Price et al., also known as the "Mississippi Burning trial", a criminal trial where the United States charged a group of 18 men with conspiring in a Ku Klux Klan plot to...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Remembering Civil Rights Leader Dorothy Height

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment, NewsHour correspondent Gwen Ifill remembers civil rights activist Dr. Dorothy Height, who was a leader in both the African-American and women's rights movements. [5:06]
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Primary
University of Virginia

The University of Virginia Library: Reconstruction, by Fredrick Douglass

For Students 9th - 10th
A document on Reconstruction written by Fredrick Douglass. He argues particularly for voting rights for blacks as the most necessary step to avoid the kinds of state's rights conflicts that brought about the Civil War.
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Primary
Scholastic

Scholastic: Teachers: Student Interviews With Rosa Parks

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Excellent questions from students, answered by African American civil rights activist Rosa Parks.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Dance Theatre of Harlem

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Dance Theatre of Harlem is this segment from A Walk Through Harlem.
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Primary
University of Missouri

Exploring Constitutional Conflicts: Plessy v Ferguson

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the Supreme Court opinion that solidified the concept of separate, but equal in American law. The dissenting opinion written by Justice John Harlan is also included.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Women's Suffrage: When Did Women Vote?

For Students 9th - 10th
Print a copy of the "Voting Dates Fact Sheet" and fill it in with the data collected as the world map is explored.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Photo Gallery: Significant Abolitionists

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the countless people who made important contributions to the abolitionist movement to end slavery. In this photo gallery from American Experience, explore some of these leaders and their vocations.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream"

For Students 9th - 10th
On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech to hundreds of thousands of Americans at what is known as the March on Washington. This now-famous speech was both an apex and catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement in...
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Today, 2006

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS American Experience website documentary on race relations and the current struggles for equality. Site offers primary and secondary resources and links to related material.
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion site to the televised documentary "Eyes on the Prize" provides access to a full complement of primary sources on the civil rights movement (1954-85), reflections of the people involved, profiles of important figures, image...
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Primary
Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Letter From Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.

For Students 9th - 10th
This site will let you hear from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his own words in a letter written from a Birmingham jail cell in April of 1963. In this letter, Dr. King defends himself against accusations that he is an "outsider" and...
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Primary
US National Archives

Our Documents: Desegregation of the Armed Forces(1948)

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a brief overview of the history behind this executive order that integrated the segregated military and then read a copy of the complete original text.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs: American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till

For Students 9th - 10th
The murder of Emmett Till was a major catalyzing event in the Civil Rights Movement. Here you will find extensive information on the murder, trial, and the ramifications of both.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "The Woman's Bible"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the philosophy and strategies of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as well as the fight for women's right to vote.
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Website
iCivics

I Civics: Curriculum Units

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of Social Studies units, WebQuests, and games that focuses on teaching students how government works and the importance of being responsible, informed American citizens. Units are linked to state standards. A teacher...
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Unit Plan
Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Civil Rights and Vietnam (1948 1975)

For Students 9th - 10th
A unit guide and primary sources supply to assist with learning about the Civil Rights Movement in America as well as the activities taking place in Vietnam. Why was America fighting for civil rights across the seas while struggling with...
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Website
PBS

Pbs: American Roots Music

For Students 9th - 10th
If teaching a unit about the history of popular music in America, this PBS web site supporting their four-part TV broadcast of a few years ago would make a great resource. Includes lesson plans and oral histories too.
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Primary
Duke University

Conscience of a Nation: John Hope Franklin on African American History

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibition on African-American history that is inspired by the work of John Hope Franklin (1915-2009), an African-American scholar who studied the historical roots of racial prejudice. The exhibit presents primary documents, texts,...
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Primary
PBS

The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This PBS site provides an introduction and the full text to the speech written and given by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1853 commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Unforgivable Blackness

For Students 9th - 10th
Online companion to Ken Burns documentary about boxing legend Jack Johnson. Very extensive site that gives you the life story of Johnson and the challenges he faced. Can be used as a companion to the PBS documentary.
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PBS

Pbs: Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS always provides an excellent website! This time they turn their attention to the famous Brown case. Site presents educational photos and narrative about the long road to Brown and the long road ahead.