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PBS

Teachers' Domain: Understanding White Supremacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan explores some of the structures that supported the system of white supremacy in the South. Students watch a video of historical footage showing white resisistance, and examine ordinances and documents of white supremacy...
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Other

Encyclopedia of Arkansas: Education

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the development of the educational system in Arkansas. What struggles and challenges did education face historically? What were the effects of segregation, then of desegregation on the schools?
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PBS

Pbs: The War: African Americans in World War Ii [Pdf] [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson plans and activities based on Ken Burns' film, "The War." Insight into the experiences of African Americans during the World War 11 period; from the homefront to segregation in the military to the Double V campaign. Links to video...
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Brown v. Board of Education

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Park Service provides backgroud on the historic U.S. Supreme Court racial segregation case, Brown vs. Board of Education. Includes a link to a PDF on related historical places (requires Adobe Reader).
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The History Cat

The History Cat: The Jim Crow Era: The Life and Death of Jim Crow

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at how Southerners continued to discriminate against blacks after the Civil War through Black Codes, or Jim Crow laws, which permitted practices such as segregation in public places and requiring literacy tests in order to vote.
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Other

Core: Sit Ins

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief description of the role of the sit-in as a non-violent way to protest segregation in the South.
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University of Washington

University of Washington: Mendel's Experiments

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a summary of a lecture given at the University of Washington about Mendel's Experiments concerning the 3:1 segregation ratio.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Plessy vs. Ferguson Case

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides an overview and detailed facts about the impact of the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson case on racial segregation.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Jim Crow Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Jim Crow Laws, Southern laws that legalized segregation.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Freedom Riders

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides numerous detailed facts and a summary of the Freedom Riders who boarded their buses in May 1961 to test segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals in the South.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Little Rock Nine

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn detailed facts about the Little Rock Nine crisis, the refusal to admit 9 African American students to the racially segregated Little Rock Central High in Arkansas in 1957.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: March on Washington

For Students 9th - 10th
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place on August 28, 1963, with the purpose of making demands for civil rights legislation and the elimination of racial segregation in public schools and jobs.
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Eugene "Bull" Connor

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biographical details on Eugene "Bull" Connor, Commissioner of Public Safety in Birmingham, AL in 1961. He was an ultra-segregationist with close ties to the KKK known for enforcing racial segregation and denying civil rights to...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Birmingham Campaign

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the history of the Birmingham Campaign that was part of the Civil Rights movement for African Americans against segregation and southern Jim Crow laws on this light.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Jim Crow Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
On this site,students learn about the history of Jim Crow Laws including segregation in the South, example laws, grandfather clauses, black codes, and how they got the name Jim Crow.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: African American Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the history of the African-American Civil Rights Movement including segregation, Jim Crow laws, protests, Martin Luther King, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act on this site.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Little Rock Nine

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the history of the Little Rock Nine on this site. Site discusses how African-American students who fought to end segregation by attending an all-white high school.
Article
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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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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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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