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Digital History: Freedom Now

For Students 9th - 10th
When four African American North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College students refused to leave the lunch-counter at the F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro they started the first non-violent, "sit-in" movement. Although the...
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University of Virginia

Race and Place: An African American Community

For Students 9th - 10th
"Race and Place" is an archive about the racial segregation laws, or the 'Jim Crow' laws from the late 1880s until the mid-twentieth century. The focus of the collection is the town of Charlottesville in Virginia. The site contains...
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International Civil Rights Center: Explore History: Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1960, four students at North Carolina A&T University decided to protest segregation laws by staging a sit-in at the Woolworth store lunch counter. Their action sparked a nation-wide protest by students that spread from just...
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Library of Congress

Loc: African American Odyssey: World War Ii, Segregation at Home and Abroad

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief references along with posters of the era to document the struggles of African Americans during The Depression and World War II. Brief biography of some of the African American leaders of that era, including A. Philip Randolph.
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Library of Virginia

Virginia Memory: Virginians Respond

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students use primary sources to explore how Virginians responded to the Brown v. Board of Education decision by the Supreme Court in 1954 that called for an end to school segregation. They look in particular at Virginia's...
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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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NBC

Nbc Learn: Finishing the Dream: 1962 1963: Standoffs

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of archival video clips highlighting the efforts of African Americans to fight racial segregation in education. Looks at the struggle of James H. Meredith to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962, and the resulting...
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The Newberry Library

Newberry Library: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Urban North

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning resource using primary sources in which students study de facto segregation in the North following the Civil War and examine how African-Americans responded to segregation and racism compared to the South.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Activism in the Civil Rights Movement

For Students 6th - 8th
In this interactive lesson, students will learn about the historical background of racial segregation and the brave individuals and groups who stood up against segregation during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Civil Rights Greensboro: Greensboro Sit Ins at Woolworth's

For Students 9th - 10th
A very detailed description of the sit-ins at the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's store and other businesses in that city during the first part of 1960. These sit-ins were to call attention to the segregation of public businesses...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Mendel's First Set of Experiments

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand the fundamentals of Gregor Mendel's early genetics experiments. Students will explore the Law of Segregation within genetics and how to cross F1 and F2...
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Apartheid Signs

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic exhibition tells the story of segregation in South Africa during the last half of the 20th century.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: Gong Lum v Rice

For Students 9th - 10th
The Supreme Court's 1927 opinion in Gong Lum v. Rice affirmed legalized school segregation.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Sammy Davis Jr.

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of three video lessons about Sammy Davis Jr., comedy, race, segregation in 1960's Hollywood, politics, identity, and The Civil Rights Movement.
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Tennessee History For Kids

Tennessee History for Kids: Segregation No More

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website provides information about Tennessee's role in the Civil Rights Movement.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Taking a Stand

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This teacher lesson has the students explore discrimination and segregation and its impact on the Civil Rights movement. It begins by having the children look at rules and laws in society and then examine historical examples of...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Making of African American Identity 1917 1968

For Students 9th - 10th
Eighty-two primary sources explore African American identity in the 20th century. They examine segregation, migrations, protest, community, and what remained to be overcome.
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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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Emory University

Emory University: Invisible Legacy

For Students 9th - 10th
An article discussing how George Wallace will be remembered in history because of his changing views from a "pro-segregation" racist to a backer of civil rights.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: 1945 1960: African American Struggle for Civil Rights

For Students 11th - 12th
Examines how Presidents Truman and Eisenhower dealt with the civil rights movement, the steps taken by African Americans to combat discrimination and segregation, and the reaction of white people in the South to the civil rights...
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Freedom Riders

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS collects and summarizes the stories of the freedom riders, who, in 1961, challenged segregation in the American South. Includes video clips from the documentary, interactive timeline of key locations and events, biographical...
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Library of Congress

Loc: African American Perspectives

For Students 9th - 10th
Library of Congress collection of books, pamphlets, and photographs that are tied together for a special presentation "The Progress of a People." Proceed through the three sessions: Segregation and Violence, Solving the Race Problem, and...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Drawing the Color Line, 1860s 1890s

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress offers a timeline of the history of baseball from the 1860s through the 1890s. See how teams were developed and trace the eventual segregation of African-Americans to all black teams by the end of the 19th century.
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

Jfk Presidential Library & Museum: James Farmer

For Students 9th - 10th
Letters and telegrams from the co-founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), James farmer, help tell the story of his fight against segregation during the Kennedy years.

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