Civil Rights
Civil rights are an essential component of democracy. They're guarantees of equal social opportunities and protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other characteristics. Examples are the rights to vote, to a fair trial, to government services, and to a public education. Encyclopedia Britannica
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Middle School Resources
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Take the Confederate Names Off Our Army Bases
It is time to remove the names of traitors like Benning and Bragg from our country’s most important military installations.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's Boston University Papers, Archive, & Museum
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Prophet of Freedom
Behind the “Leonine Gaze” of Frederick DouglassHistorian David Blight on his new biography of Frederick Douglass.
Frederick Douglass, Scarred and tormented seeing men made slaves, set the course of his life to show how a slave became a man. In the cadences of the Bible and Shakespeare, A radical abolitionist with the gaze of a lion, Douglass bestrides the peaks and dark valleys of American history like a colossus, and a modern. More photographed than Lincoln; more traveled than any orator save possibly Mark Twain. He was face-to-face with the whole cast of the 19th Century — the only black man at the birthing of the women’s movement in Seneca Falls in 1848. He pushed back with Lincoln in the White House, and with the rebel John Brown before Harpers Ferry. He moved Emerson to say: “Here is the Anti-Slave.” 
Ken Burns and his collaborators have been creating historical documentary films for more than forty years. Known for a signature style that brings primary source documents, images, and archival video footage to life on screen, these films present the opportunity to pose thought-provoking questions for students, and introduce new ideas, perspectives, and primary sources.
Lesson Plan (46), Video (322), Media Gallery (92), Interactive (1), Image (26), Document (15) for Grades 4-13+
The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven
George Bridgetower, the original dedicatee of the “Kreutzer” Sonata, was a charismatic prodigy but faded into history.
George Bridgetower's Biography
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The Burning of Black Wall Street, Revisited
Nearly a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, the search for the dead continues.
A National leader of the Abolitionist Movement in Massachusetts and New York
Frederick Douglas Collection St John Fisher College, Rochester, NY.
White supremacy has a history in Rochester, NY
(Home of Frederick Douglass) There are no Confederate monuments in Monroe County, and no white supremacist rallies are scheduled. But the Rochester New York area, proud as it is of its role in the anti-slavery movement, does have a history of racist groups and gatherings. It dates at least to 1872, when the local hero of that anti-slavery movement, Frederick Douglass, had his South Avenue house burned down while he was out of town. Read the whole story click here. 
The 1619 Project
In August 1619, a pirate ship, the White Lion, stopped at Jamestown and traded 20-some captive Africans for food. The Africans were treated as indentured servants and soon released.
Fifteen months later, in November 1620, an English ship blown off course on its way to Virginia ended up off the barren coast of Massachusetts. It landed more than 100 men, women and children. Those voyagers founded Plymouth Colony.
Which event mattered more?
Virginia was run by a private company in England that allowed the settlers some limited choices. Jamestown’s place in American history is secure, but it never became the model for American independence or a template for self-government.
Americans have so long cherished the story of the Pilgrims surviving in the wilderness with the help of Native Americans that we sometimes forget why this tiny colony was so important to our history. It is because they invented a prototype of our republic.
America’s cruelest, richest slave traders: Why does no one know their names?
Art & Music - People’s Movement: 1961 - 1974
Genetic impact of African slave trade revealed in DNA study
The Unknown History of Atlantic Vs Islamic Slave TradeHow did we get from "The Civil War" to "The War of Northern Aggression?" The North won the war (whatever that means) but the South clearly won the propaganda war afterwards..These are the results of the "Daughters of the Confederacy's" Education program. How is it that the President’s Chief of Staff John Kelly, a well educated man and former General, commented that the Civil War would not have happened if there had been "compromise." He further said that General Lee "was an honorable man" when clearly the General forsook his oath to defend the United States, and the Constitution, to traitorously fight "for his state." I implore you, how did the “Civil War” metamorphosize into “War of Northern Aggression?”
‘No Slavery in Australia’? These Pacific Islanders Tell a Different Story
From MLK to John Lewis, Ebenezer Baptist Church has been a haven for civil rights
The church was a home base to Martin Luther King Jr., and has since hosted several important events in the movement for racial justice.
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Books Found In the Learning CommonsImperial Islam - Enslaved Africans, Asians, and Europeans for over a thousand years..Arab Slave Trade was much larger than the Atlantic Slave Trade. It began in 639 AD and is still active in Mauritania and UAE.
How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class
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Japanese Americans
America’s Forgotten Internment. The United States confined 2,200 Latin Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. They’re still pushing for redress.
Japanese-American Internment During World War II
Oakland, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" placed in the window of a store, at [401 - 403 Eighth] and Franklin streets, on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese descent to evacuate from certain West Coast areas. The owner, a University of California graduate, will be housed with hundreds of evacuees in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war
A Flag for All in Mississippi
What if the state could create a new heritage?
It was the bust of Nefertiti, Toby Wilkinson writes, that “came to represent for Egyptian nationalists the exploitation and appropriation of their history by foreigners — a perennial insult that had gone on for more than a century.”
For nearly 400 years, Harvard's most famous motto has been a single word, Veritas, or truth. In the spirit of that slogan, university officials said, Harvard on Tuesday published the first full accounting of the institution's historical ties to slavery.
After three days on a Greyhound bus, Lela Mae Williams was just an hour from her destination – Hyannis, Massachusetts – when she asked the bus driver to pull over. She needed to change into her finest clothes. She had been promised the Kennedys would be waiting for her.
America is Having an Unprecedented Debate About Reparations. What Comes Next?
Congress’s reparations hearing was historic. It also revealed long-standing tensions. Recent months have touched off a renewed debate about what exactly is owed to the descendants of enslaved men and women after centuries of bondage and legalized discrimination. On Wednesday morning, that debate entered the halls of Congress as a small panel of academics, activists, and journalists, many of them the descendants of enslaved men and women, testified during a hearing on reparations. To read the full story click here...
The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership database
A historical reckoning for the global slave trade. A crowd toppled a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in the port city of Bristol. They then dumped it in the same harbor from which his ships once sailed to pick up cargoes of slaves in Africa.
'My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves.'
Amid the global debate about race relations, colonialism and slavery, some of the Europeans and Americans who made their fortunes in trading human beings have seen their legacies reassessed, their statues toppled and their names removed from public buildings.
Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes that one of her ancestors sold slaves, but argues that he should not be judged by today's standards or values.
Migrations
The Transatlantic Slave Trade 1450-1867
Runaway Journeys
The Domestic Slave Trade (1760s-1865)
Colonization and Emigration (1783-1910s)
Haitian Immigration : Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
The Western Migration (1840s-1970)
The Northern Migration (1840s-1890)
The Great Migration (1916-1930)
The Second Great Migration (1940-1970)
Caribbean Migration (1900-present)
Return Migration to the South (1970-present)
Haitian Immigration (1970-present)
African Immigration
This Day in Jazz History
James Van Der Zee - Artist of the Harlem Renaissance
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A Postcard View of African-American Life
Idealized country life, in a card mailed in 1907, as Americans flocked to cities.
A river baptism in the South, depicted in a postcard that was mailed in 1912.
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Why Schools Fail To Teach Slavery's 'Hard History'
By the time George Washington died, more than 300 enslaved people lived and toiled on his Mount Vernon farm. Painting by Junius Brutus Stearns, 19th Century.
"In the ways that we teach and learn about the history of American slavery," write the authors of a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), "the nation needs an intervention."
This new report, titled Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, is meant to be that intervention: a resource for teachers who are eager to help their students better understand slavery — not as some "peculiar institution" but as the blood-soaked bedrock on which the United States was built. To read more click here... |
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