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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: The Chinese Experience: Chinese Exclusion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan is from a larger unit examining the Chinese immigrant experience in America in the 19th century. Young scholars will examine actions that were taken to discriminate against the Chinese and exclude them from American...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Eslarp: Race Riot at East St. Louis, 1917

For Students 9th - 10th
This chapter from a book about East St. Louis relates the horror of the East St. Louis Massacre where maurading whites fired on African Americans and torched their homes. Read about the aftermath of the massacre and what happened to...
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: "Raisin in the Sun" Teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Raisin in the Sun" (screenplay) teacher guide includes in-depth introduction and synopsis. Also featured are tips for reading a screenplay. Masterfully explores themes, symbolism, and film techniques. Consists of 16 pages. This is a...
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Eugenics Archive: Eugenics Popularization

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains how the idea of eugenics, based on poor science, became popular in the 1920s as a reaction against immigration and African Americans.
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PBS

Pbs: Tolerance in Times of Trial

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson compares the treatment of Japanese-Americans and German-Americans during World War II and the treatment of Arab-Americans after September 11th.
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Other

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is dedicated to the German memorial of the murdered Jewish people from the Holocaust. This site also offers information on other memorials dedicated to other persecuted groups throughout German history.
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Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Little Blue and Little Yellow

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site on the book "Little Blue and Little Yellow" by Leo Lionni, includes a review of the book, a listing of things to notice and talk about, activities related to the book, other related books, and links to other resources.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Democracy in America: Civil Rights: Demanding Equality

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit embraces those individuals who have brought change to the United States in both social and political equality through a Video on Demand, activities, and other enlightening resources.
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BBC

Bbc: Week of 6 9 14: Natural Hair Advocates Take on the Us Army

For Students 9th - 10th
Recent changes to the regulations for women's hairstyles within the military have raised questions of bias against black women and their natural hair texture.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Leaving Things Behind [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This resource provides information about Japanese-Americans who were forced to relocate to interment camps during World War II.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: A Class Divided 3: An Interview With Jane Elliott

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Web-exclusive interview for FRONTLINE, Jane Elliott discusses her abiding sense that her lesson on bigotry is as necessary today as it was in 1968.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Children in the Civil Rights Movement

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Meet ordinary children of the past who inspire us even today. Step back in time to a United States full of racism and segregation. Students will explore the Civil Rights Movement and leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They'll see...
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The Washington Post

Washington Post: Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating first chapter from the book, Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light. Read about how African American laborers and troops were treated by their white American compatriots and see how that contrasted with the...
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US National Archives

Nara: Powers of Persuasion: United We Win

For Students 9th - 10th
In spite of racial discrimination and segregation in the military and in civilian life, the overwhelming majority of black Americans participated wholeheartedly in the fight against the Axis powers. This site explores the posters,...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: About Marcus Garvey and the Black Star Line

For Students 9th - 10th
This page contains a mix of different information about Marcus Garvey and a photograph exhibit relating to his steamship company, the Black Star Line.
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Utah State University

Teacher Link: Letters From Rifka

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site features an interdisciplinary lesson plan for the book "Letters from Rifka" by Karen Hesse. Discover how this twelve year old girl's struggle to get to America from Russia.
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Northern Illinois University

National Campaign Materials 1840 1840: Political Culture: Nativism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has an article about pre-Civil War nativism as it was fueled by anti-immigrant groups and anti-Catholicism.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Irish Immigrants in 19th Century America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Here, you will find lesson plans through which students research, study, and discuss the problems faced by Irish immigrants during the 19th century. Provides bibliographies, as well as effective strategies for studying Irish culture and...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: The Land by Mildred D. Taylor

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This resource provides a description and a discussion guide for the book The Land by Mildred D. Taylor. This book was presented with the Coretta Scott King Award in 2002.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Point Atkinson Lighthouse: Maintaining the Light

For Students 9th - 10th
The Point Atkinson Lighthouse,built to protect the shipping trade of a growing Vancouver, is profiled. This is the history of the lighthouse ..from early, isolated days to the lives of the keepers of the lighthouse and their families to...
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Other

For Many, One: Eugenics in the Culture Wars of the 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the bizarre ideas of those who believed in the role of eugenics in society. Find out about "bad" heredity and "good" heredity and see the form from the Eugenics Society of America that determined the "fitness" of individual...
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Chicago History Museum

Encyclopedia of Chicago: Carl Sandburg, the Chicago Race Riots, July 1919

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a part of an article written by Carl Sandburg for the Chicago Daily News reporting on the Chicago Race Riots of 1919.
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Other

Mississippi Writers Page: Mildred D. Taylor

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the writer of "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" and her early life -- how she heard family stories as a child, and how she developed the character Paul Edward for "The Land." There is an extensive bibliography of her works and...

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