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Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia: What Was Jim Crow?

For Students 9th - 10th
A listing of the Jim Crow laws and understood Jim Crow etiquette found across the South in the late 19th century.
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White Pine Pictures

White Pine Pictures: Captain of Souls: Rev. William White

For Students 9th - 10th
Reverend William White was born the son of slaves who had bought their freedom. He was accepted to Acadia University in Nova Scotia and became a great athlete and later a minister. He preached equality for all races and fought for...
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Cowles Library: Editorial Cartoons of J. N. "Ding" Darling

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive collection of editorial cartoons created by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist J. N. Ding Darling, who was active during the first half of the twentieth century and commented on all the significant happenings and history...
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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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Digital History

Digital History: Simple Justice

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the civil rights quest for integrated schools from the beginning in 1849 through the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. the Topeka Board of Education and the struggle that ensued for decades following in the most reluctant...
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Digital History

Digital History: Affirmative Action and the Case of Allan Bakke [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The history of affirmative action was interwoven with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Read about how the federal government under both President Kennedy and President Nixon attempted to open up jobs to...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980:civil Rights Act 1964/voting Rights Act 1965

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the civil rights legislation that outlawed discrimination in jobs, education, housing, public accommodations, and voting.
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History Matters: Recollection of 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

For Students 9th - 10th
Walter White, who later became head of the NAACP, recalls witnessing the 1906 Atlanta Race Riots at age 13.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: The Progresssive Era

For Students 9th - 10th
This Grolier On-line Encyclopedia article hits the main points of the Progressive Era stretching from the 1890s until just after the end of World War I.
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PBS

Enlightenment: Brown v. Board of Education

For Students 9th - 10th
Site offers background, further study links, the issue before the court, the ruling and results, and discussion ideas for the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Students "Sit" for Civil Rights

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read the book, "Freedom on the Menu" about the Greensboro Sit-Ins and use the background information and follow up activities provided to enhance the story.
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Ancestors in the Americas: Yick Wo vs. Hopkins

For Students 9th - 10th
A very thorough coverage of the discriminatory case Yick Wo vs. Hopkins, which overturned a law aimed at restricting Chinese laundries.
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Illinois Institute of Technology

The Oyez Project: Shelley v. Kraemer

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides facts about the Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer, including an abstract, links to written opinions of the Court, and how each of the nine justices ruled upon the case.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the famous Supreme Court decision that ended school segregation, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Affirmative Action

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a thorough treatment of the politics of affirmative action from researcher Robert Fullinwider, of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: The South After the Civil War: Jim Crow

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains how Jim Crow laws came to be created in the South and what it meant for African Americans. Discusses the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case, how its decision was eventually overturned, and the events that brought an end to...
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Mlksb: Why We Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn why we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a holiday. Also gives a brief description on the life and work of Dr. King.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Martin Luther King Jr.

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Student understands the struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil liberties using Martin Luther King's speeches, History of holiday, biography and many other activities.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Eleanor Holmes Norton

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Eleanor Holmes Norton, an American lawyer and politician who broke several gender and racial barriers during her career, in which she defended the rights of others for equal opportunity.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: The Atlanta Compromise

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview with detailed facts about Booker T. Washington and the 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Black Power

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed discussion of the people and events of the Black Power movement.

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