Issues of Race and Class

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• CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IDEAS

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  • Encyclopedia of Women's History -- K-12 community contributions on women's history
    
  • National Center for History in the School
    
  • Educational Resources Information Center
    
  • Educational Sources [K-12] On-Line
    
  • EDUCOM Server
    
  • Other Links to Curriculum Development Sources
    
  
  
  • Sample Lesson Plans
    • Leader of the Free World: 1945-1975 (grades K-2) -- introduces students to Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Fanny Lou Hamer
      
    • Leader of the Free World: 1945-1975 (grade 5) -- introduces students to Martin Luther King Jr.
      
    • Leader of the Free World: 1945-1975 (middle school) -- introduces students to Martin Luther King Jr. and the obstacles faced by the Civil Rights Movement (part 1)
      
    • Leader of the Free World: 1945-1975 (middle school) -- introduces students to Martin Luther King Jr. and the obstacles faced by the Civil Rights Movement (part 2)
      
    • A Nation in Quandry: 1975- (middle school) (part 1)
      
    • A Nation in Quandry: 1975- (middle school) (part 2)
      
    • Looking at Different Cultures (grades 4-7)
      
    • Sequencing of Events (grades 5-12)
      
    • Civil Rights: Does Our Society Accept Minorities? (grades 9-12)
      
    • Supreme Court Decisions and Their Effect on Us (grades 11-12)
      
    • The Great Election Hunt (Secondary, Adult)
      
    • The Presidential Campaign Came (grades 11-12)
      
  
  
  

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• DEMOGRAPHY AND DATABASES

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  • Bureau of Labor Statistics (US) Selective Access Data
    
  • Social Sciences Data Collection: UC San Diego
    
  • Social Sciences Data Collection: University of Virginia -- includes election data
    
  • Population Index On-Line
    
  • Office of Population Research Data Archive
    
  • Population Studies Center Data Archive Quick Index, University of Michigan
    
  • Population Studies Center: University of Pennsylvania
    
  • Census Data, Bureau of the Census
    
  
  
  

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• IMAGES

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  • Photo Collection, 1935-1945: American Memory Project, Library of Congress
    
  
  
  

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• TOPICAL LINKS

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  • African American Migration
    • The African-American Mosaic: A Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture, Library of Congress
      
    
    
  • Civil Rights
    • Yahoo's Page on the Civil Rights Movement -- a good starting place
      
    • Overview of the Civil Rights Movement, WorldBook
      
    
    
  • Elections
    • America Votes Presidential Campaign Memorabilia from the Duke University Special Collections Library -- includes images of candidate and party artifacts from exhibit
      
  
  
  

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• WOMEN'S HISTORY

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  • African American Women -- manuscript pages and women's writings
    
  
  
  

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• ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

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  • Yahoo's Page on African American History -- a good starting place!
    
  • AFRO-Americ@'s Black History Museum
    
  • The National Women's History Project
    
  • Historical Documents
    
  • African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907, American Memory Project, Library of Congress
    
  • African American History Archive, Mississippi State University
    
  • Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices from the Special Collections Library at Duke University
    

This page is maintained by Beth Terhune (eterhune@history.umass.edu) of the Department of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst.