OVERCOMING THE INJUSTICE OF STEREOTYPES

	Eighth Grade English- Research Paper Links
		AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY (including Tuskegee Airmen, Underground Railroad, and more!)	SPORTS GAY RIGHTS
		GENOCIDE	WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
		TRIALS AND LAWS	MIGRANT WORKERS
		HOLOCAUST	HATE GROUPS
		CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THE DISABLED	RESEARCH CHECKLIST       (Page 2 - suggested references
		CHILD LABOR   Racial Profiling	NOTESHEET
		PREJUDICE (Women, Native Americans,  Japanese Americans, etc.)	WEB EVALUATION DATABASE HOMEWORK
	SEARCH ENGINES | DATABASES | INTERNET LINKS | GRADE 8 PAGE| WAMS HOME

AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY RESOURCES

African American History Web links

Africanaonline.com

Black History Month - use sidebar menu
  In the News, Groundbreakers, Heroes, History

Underground Railroad history

More about the Underground Railroad

Black Military History:

• Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.  
   
• American Visionaries: Tuskegee Airmen

 

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GENOCIDE

Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide, with video clips from ABC News
(please use a headphone)

BBC: US House calls Darfur Genocide

Save Darfur

Rwanda: How the Genocide happened (BBC)

Rwandan Genocide Frontline: The Triumph of Evil

MIGRANT WORKERS

PBS: Migrant Life

The Migrant Experience

PBS: Migrant Workers in the US

 

 

CHILD LABOR

Child Labor Public Education Project

Child Labor

Child Labor Coalition

Human Rights Issues - Amnesty international

 

 

FAMOUS TRIALS and LAWS relating to segregation and discrimination

African American history page – includes information on Dred Scott, Civil Rights, Freedon Rides, March on Washington, Montgomery Bus Boycotts, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, School Integration, and more!

Landmark Supreme Court Cases (includes Brown, Plessy, Dred Scott and more!)
 

Brown v. Board of Education	The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys	Jim Crow laws :	Plessy v. Ferguson ("separate but equal")
Amistad Trial	Powell, Patterson, Weems v. Alabama	The History of Jim Crow	Today in History- Plessy v. Ferguson
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AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
 

HISTORY AND EVENTS	PEOPLE
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement	Civil Rights Movement and it's Leaders - includes Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, and others
Desegregation	VOICES OF CIVIL RIGHTS
Greenboro Sit-in of 1960	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Links about Lynching	Rosa Parks (National Women’s Hall of Fame)
Ruby Bridges     More information	Rosa Parks (Time Magazine)
Montgomery Bus Boycott	Rosa Parks (Scholastic)
	Mississippi and Freedom Summer Freedom Summer

GAY RIGHTS   ACLU GAY RIGHTS

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THE DISABLED

Americans with Disabilities Act: Q&A

 

HATE GROUPS
 

Southern Poverty Law Center – Hate Groups Ku Klux Klan

Stop Hate – Antidefamation League - Internet Hate Anti-Semitism Racism Holocaust Denial Neo-Nazi Skinheads                            Ku Klux Klan Nation of Islam Homophobia

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Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson: Soul of the Game

HOLOCAUST

Holocaust Encyclopedia

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PREJUDICE - MANY PEOPLES OF THE WORLD

Human Rights Issues - Amnesty international Internment of San Francisco Japanese Americans Japanese American Internment - many topics covered Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives	Apartheid in South Africa South Africa: Ten Years Later 1990: De Klerk dismantles apartheid in South Africa ANC Page
Native Americans and Land Disaster at Wounded Knee	The Plight of the Afghan Women

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ONLINE DATABASES

Magazine and Newspaper Articles:	Reference Articles
Ebsco, including Student Research Center	Facts on File - history references
Infotrac - also has reference articles	Junior Reference Collection
PROQUEST - news articles	Cobblestone - history magazine

REMEMBER: Passwords are needed for use at home!

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Revised KAH 02/08/08