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African American Daily ConditionsThese photos depict typical daily activities of African Americans before the Civil Rights era. |
6-12 |
Image |
African American Daily LifeThese photos depict typical daily activities of African Americans before the Civil Rights era. |
K-5 |
Image |
The Civil Rights Movement in America, 1945-1975This interactive timeline provides a chronological and geographic view of the events of the Civil Rights era and its aftermath. |
K-12 |
Interactive |
Colonial HouseIn this segment from Colonial House, Colonists and the Passamaquoddy people encounter each other for the first time. |
6-12 |
Video |
Debating SlaveryIn this video segment adapted from Africans in America, learn how the issue of slavery shaped the debate at the U.S. Constitutional Convention. |
5-12 |
Video |
Dutch West India Company (1621)This segment from Dutch New York describes the formation of the Dutch West India Company, which established some of the earliest settlements in North America.
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6-12 |
Video |
FDR and the Court In this video from The Supreme Court, the Court reverses its practice of protectionism for big business to protect the worker. |
9-12 |
Video |
Final SpeechesIn this segment from Independent Lens, three candidates for class monitor make a final speech to grab the win. |
6-12 |
Video |
The Fourteenth Amendment - Part I This video segment from The Supreme Court introduces viewers to the Fourteenth amendment. |
7-12 |
Video |
The Fourteenth Amendment - Part IIIn this video segment from The Supreme Court, learn about the 1883 Supreme Court decision that marked the end of federal protections for individuals in states and the beginning of Jim Crow segregation. |
7-12 |
Video |
Harriet Beecher StoweIn this video from ThinkTV Dayton, learn about Harriet Beecher Stowe and the basis of her famous book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that documented racial injustice before the Civil War. |
6-12 |
Video |
Hyde County School BoycottThis slide show tells the story of a yearlong boycott to protest the closing of historically black schools in Hyde County, North Carolina. |
3-12 |
Image |
The Journey of the Jewish AmericansThis segment from The Jewish Americans shows how in the 19th century Jews and other groups were sometimes not welcomed when they immigrated to the United States. |
6-12 |
Video |
Ku Klux Klan FlyersThis flyer advertises a 1963 white supremacist Ku Klux Klan meeting; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. |
6-12 |
Document |
Little Rock NineThis collection of photos shows scenes from the controversial desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. |
6-12 |
Image |
Living With the LandThis video segment adapted from American Experience tells the story of how some Native American tribes once migrated the length of the North American continent to find the resources they needed. |
5-12 |
Video |
March on Washington FlyersThese 1963 flyers announce the speakers and issues for the March on Washington; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. |
3-12 |
Document |
A New Kind of Justice Explore the creation, intention and language of the Fourteenth Amendment in this video from The Supreme Court. |
9-12 |
Video |
New Netherland: The Early YearsIn this lesson students identify the economic, political and social roots of Dutch New York. |
6-8 |
Lesson Plan |
Rosa ParksIn this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, legendary civil rights activist Rosa Parks recalls her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
3-12 |
Video |
Segregated Schooling in AlabamaThis scrapbook documents conditions in Birmingham's segregated schools in 1963, as well as white resistance to integration. |
3-5 |
Image |
The Sinking of the U.S.S. IndianapolisThrough flashback, L.D.Cox tells how he survived the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis during World War II in this segment from History Detectives. |
6-12 |
Video |
