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:

 

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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

  Amistad Revolt and Trial   Jim Crow Laws

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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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    SPORTS
     
    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