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City College of San Francisco: The Diego Rivera Mural Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource features the Pan American Unity Mural located at the City College of San Francisco. Also known as Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and the South, the mural was created to promote diversity and show human...
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Black Past

Black Past: First Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia

For Students 9th - 10th
The encyclopedia entry about the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia,tells about the opportunities for both black slaves and freemen in this integrated church in the Antebellum South.
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Ecuador Explorer: People and Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed look at Ecuador's population, religion, language, and indigenous culture.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: School Publishers: Carving a Memorial to Chief Crazy Horse

For Students 3rd - 5th
This Harcourt Publishing site is all about the memorial carved in the Black Hills of South Dakota in honor of Chief Crazy Horse.
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Museum: North South East West: American Indians and the Natural World

For Students 9th - 10th
Web companion site to the Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. It focuses on American Indians' relationships with the natural world and explores four different visions: the Tlingit...
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Free (?) African Americans

For Students 5th - 8th
Not all African-Americans were slaves in the South. Some were freed by their owners, others escaped, but none had the same rights as free whites. Read about their restrictions that were put into law. Find out about the church...
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Digital History

Digital History:the Great Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
The Great Migration for African Americans began during World War I as blacks left the segregated south to find jobs in the north. Read about how segregation followed them into their northern neighborhoods. See also how the Harlem...
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Digital History

Digital History: The African American as Sharecropper [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
After reading about the system of sharecropping or tenant farming for the African American in the South, look at poverty statistics for African Americans vs. whites between 1960 and 1990. Is there a corelation between the sharecropping...
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Postbellum African American Society and Culture: Black Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Encyclopedia of American Social History. Read about the black migration to the West, primarily Kansas and Oklahoma after the end of Reconstruction and the institution of black codes in the South.
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Black Past

Black Past: Berea College

For Students 9th - 10th
In this brief encyclopedia article, you will read about Berea College, the first fully integrated college in the South.
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Nations Online Project

Nations Online: American Samoa

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers a country profile and travel guide to American Samoa, background overview, and numerous links to comprehensive information on the nation's culture, history, geography, economy, environment, tourism, population, news, government,...
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Digital History

Digital History: Nixon and Vietnam

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses the American involvement in the Vietnam War would officially come to an end during Nixon's second term in office. As part of his election campaign in 1968, Nixon pledged to bring "Peace with honor," and an end to...
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Black Past

Black Past: Carver, George Washington

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief encyclopedia biography about George Washington Carver tells about his interest and research in agriculture, especially in the South.
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Black Past

Black Past: Mound Bayou

For Students 9th - 10th
This interesting encyclopedia article recounts the self-segregated community of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, which was founded as a place for blacks to find economic opportunity at a time of extreme racial violence in the South.
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Civil War Home

Home of the American Civil War: States' Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
Gives a history of states' rights from the beginning of the U.S. Constitution. Scroll down to "Secession and the Confederate Constitution" to read about the South's interpretation of states' rights just prior to the Civil War. From...
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Volunteer Voices

Volunteer Voices: Martin Luther King, Jr./battle of Black Americans in Tn [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan is being built on the prior knowledge and discussion of discrimination of black Americans in the South. This lesson plan will focus on Martin Luther King Jr.'s visits to Memphis in support of their efforts and his public...
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Other

Bogota Colombia South America

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive reference tool that allows the reader to learn about the history of Bogota while discovering places to visit, sites of interest, maps, parks, lodging and dining, and much more.
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American University

American U: The Chaco War (1932 1935)

For Students 9th - 10th
A case study of the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia 1932-1935. Complete study of the war. Includes background information, description of the parties involved, and summary of results. Also, includes war's impact on the environment
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Rebuilding the Old Order

For Students 5th - 8th
Reconstruction in the South engendered corruption, greed, a poor economy, and a backlash against the idea of allowing freed slaves to take part in political and civic life. Read about the formation of paramilitary groups who attempted to...
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University of California

The History Project: New Harmony an Experimental, Cooperative Community

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The 1820s were a crucial period in our history. Much of the foundation of our modern industrial society was laid during this time. It was an era of optimism and prosperity, but also of social tensions and anxieties. The economy expanded...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science Safari: The First People

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Emulate the work of archaeologists in South Africa attempting to solve the riddles of human evolution by inferring a person's height from the length of one bone. Identify and communicate present-day rituals through ancient art techniques.
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Civil War Home

Home of the American Civil War: Black Codes in the Former Confederate States

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the black codes in various states enacted as a result of Johnson's lenient Reconstruction plans. From "Trial by Fire, A People's History of the Civil War and Reconstruction" by Paige Smith.
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Digital History

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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Digital History

Digital History: Explorations: Lynching

For Students 9th - 10th
Through the use of primary source documents, resource explores the lynching of blacks in the South during the Jim Crow era.