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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Civil Rights Act of 1964

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that was aimed at ending segregation and racial discrimination.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Montgomery Bus Boycott

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides detailed facts and a summary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a protest against segregation on public buses that began on December 1, 1955. It was led by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in California: Tule Lake Segregation Center

For Students 9th - 10th
The largest Japanese American internment camp, it also had the highest security and stayed open longest, even after World War II. The Redress movement in the 1980s and pilgrimages to Tule Lake led to the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.
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Curated OER

Sncc Protesters: Black Is Not a Vice, Nor Is Segregation a Virtue.

For Students 9th - 10th
This ibiblio.org site gives the six-year history of this college based group that supported the civil rights movement and tells of its nonviolent philosophy.
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Primary
Thurgood Marshall Website

Thurgood Marshall: The Bicentennial Speech: Remarks of Thurgood Marshall

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of Thurgood Marshall's Bicentennial Speech given in 1987, in which Marshall pointed out the inadequacies of the U.S. Constitution in addressing civil rights and liberties.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Separate Is Not Equal: White Only

For Students 9th - 10th
This section from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History's exhibition Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education gives the history of Jim Crow laws and how they affected not only the voting rights of...
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: African American Odyssey

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores Black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century. Content includes the work of abolitionists in the first half of the nineteenth century, depictions of the long journey...
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Library of Congress

Loc: African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era

For Students 9th - 10th
This two-part feature on African American history offers an in-depth look at the events of the 1960's civil rights movement. Discusses voting rights, laws, military segregation, freedom rides, sit-ins and the NAACP. Includes historic...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: African American Protest Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about African American protest poetry and what was motivating it. This article takes a look at protest poetry during slavery, during the period of segregation and Jim Crow, and after political obstacles to equality were removed....
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Leader, Rev. C. T. Vivian

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, the Reverend C. T. Vivian remembers his leadership role in the Civil Rights Movement and the risks civil rights activists took in challenging segregation.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: Brown v Board of Education, 1954

For Students 9th - 10th
The Supreme Court's landmark opinion overturned its earlier ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson and declared segregated schools unconstitutional.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: Mendez v Westminster

For Students 9th - 10th
This 1946 federal court ruling marked a victory for Mexican Americans and chipped away at the "separate but equal" doctrine, declaring segregated schools based on national origin unconstitutional.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: Plessy v. Ferguson

For Students 9th - 10th
The Supreme Court's 1896 ruling legalized the "separate but equal" doctrine that sanctioned segregation.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Connecticut Blacks in 18th and 19th Centuries

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A curriculum unit that examines the history of slavery in Connecticut, the laws permitting it, segregation, and the struggles faced by freed blacks to achieve equality.
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Eyes on the Prize: School Desegregation, 1957 1962

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of a much larger site from PBS' American Experience's series, Eyes on the Prize, look through this multifaceted site that traces the resistance to implementing school desegregation ordered by the Supreme Court and shows the...
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Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies

Famsi: La Laguna Transformations and Community Organization

For Students 9th - 10th
Excavations and analysis of the location of various artifacts found at La Lugana indicate areas of specialization, social segregation, and religious integration.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African Art: Contemporary African Art

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibition of contemporary African art that pulls together the work of 28 artists from 15 different countries. Read artist biographies, view representative works, and think about two prominent themes that emerge from the collection:...
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New Advent

Catholic Encyclopedia: Zionists

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides history of the Zionist movement to segregate the Jewish people as a nation. Also discusses the Zionism in relation to Orthodox Judaism. Please note that "The Catholic Encyclopedia" is a historic reference source and should be...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Lives on the Railroad: Salisbury, North Carolina 1927

For Students 9th - 10th
Replica of the Salisbury, North Carolina railway station teaches about riding and working on the railroad in the 1920s when railroads were a central part of American life. Railroad lines crisscrossed the country. They carried people,...
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PBS

Nova: Julian the Trailblazer

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how chemist Percy Julian overcame prejudice and segregation to become one of the leading scientists of the 20th century. These NOVA documents show milestones in Julian's life and career.
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USA Today

Minorities Make a Choice to Live With Their Own

For Students 9th - 10th
Intriguing article explaining the trend illustrated through the 2000 Census information that minorities have broken segregation ties but still choose to live in areas with other members of their racial background.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Fourteenth Amendment Part Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from The Supreme Court, learn about the 1883 Supreme Court decision that marked the end of federal protections for individuals in states and the beginning of Jim Crow segregation.
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Primary
Brigham Young University

Byu: Scott's Official History: American Negro in the World War

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of a book about the military history of African Americans in World War I. Emmett J. Scott wrote this book in 1919 to detail the experiences of African American soldiers in World War I, covering such topics as...
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PBS

Pbs: L. Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun: Jim Crow, Home Ownership, American Dream

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how Jim Crow laws impacted home ownership and the pursuit of the American Dream in this series of videos from the American Masters film, Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart. Lorraine Hansberry's family was at the...

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