Instructional Media and Technology Services

Instructional Media and Technology Services

Monthly Curriculum Resources

~ Black History Month~

February 2004

2004 Marks the Fiftieth Anniversary of Brown V Board of Education which abolished segregation in public schools.

Sources Available at Wayne RESA’s Instructional Media and Technology Services:

Please note:

· Items listed in the Duplicating Collection do not circulate. Contact RESA TV at 734-334-1437 to make an appointment to duplicate. Free to those who copy the tapes themselves, $10 per tape if RESA makes the copies.

· Items listed in the Circulating Collection are available to check out. Call the circulation desk at 734-334-1595.

· Items listed in the Reference or Periodical Collection are available to use in the Resource Center only.

Appleby, D. et al. (1993). At the River I Stand. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel. [Video recording]. One 60 minute videocassette. Documentary of two 1968 events in the civil rights movement – the sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Appropriate for senior high students and adults. (Duplicating Collection: E185.A77)

Central Michigan University. (2003). African American Perspective: Passion, Courage and Conviction. Mt. Pleasant, MI: Educational Materials Center. 3 ring binder. Contains lesson plans and resources for classroom teachers in grades 1 – 5. (Circulating Collection: E185.A56)

Kluish, M. (1992). The Road to Brown. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel. [Video recording]. One 47 minute videocassette. Presents the story of segregation in the United States, the legal campaign against it, and of Charles Houston, “the man who killed Jim Crow.” (Duplicating Collection: E185.R63).

Wayne RESA. (2000). The Hidden Treasures of the Detroit Public Library. Wayne, MI: Wayne RESA. [Video recording]. One 50 minute video recording. A tour of the E. Azalia Hackley Collection of the Detroit Public Library that illustrates the historical significance of this collection devoted to the black performing artist. Appropriate for grades 5 – 8. (Circulating Collection: F563.W3).

Wayne RESA. (2000). You Are There: A Struggle for Power. Wayne, MI: Wayne RESA. [Video recording]. National and local personalities recount personal experiences that recognize the struggles of people of color during the 50s and 60s. Produced at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. Appropriate for grades 5 – 8. (Circulating Collection: F563.W1)

Williams, J. and Dante J. James. (1996). A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel. [Video recording]. 2 videocassettes, 87 minutes. A biography of the African American labor leader, journalist, and civil rights activist. Randolph won the first national labor agreement for a black union, The Sleeping Car porters. Appropriate for high school students and adults. (Duplicating Collection: E185.A65 parts 1 & 2)

Web Resources:

African American Odyssey – Library of Congress

(Online). Available: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html (21 January, 2004). This site has selections of more than 240 items from the African American collections of the Library of Congress. The online exhibit is divided into sections entitled: Slavery, Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period, Abolition, The Civil War, Reconstruction, Booker T. Washington Era, World War Il, Depression, and Civil Rights.

Brown v the Board of Education – Yale University

(Online). Available: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/brown/ (21 January, 2004). This site is a companion to the book What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said, but also includes an interactive timeline of Civil Rights chronology.

Civil Rights: InfoUSA – U. S. Department of State

(Online). Available: http://usinfo.org/usia/usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/crights/crights.htm (22 January, 2004). This site includes a general overview, history, government links (legislation, Supreme Court Decisions, the Civil Rights Office), non-governmental organizations and research links all related to the Civil Rights Movement.

Civil Rights Law and History – U. S. Department of Justice

(Online). Available: http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage/crt/crtmenu.htm (21 January 2004). Designed for kids, this site provides links to the “federal civil rights laws and gives examples from history that led to their passage.”

Discovery Channel School – Celebrate Black History

(Online). Available: http://school.discovery.com/schoolfeatures/featurestories/blackhistory/ (22 January, 2004). Lesson plans, activities, and links related to Black History Month are presented. Includes descriptions of activities and grade levels.

Education World – Lessons to Celebrate Black History Month

(Online). Available: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson221.shtml (22 January, 2004). Includes lesson plans (with appropriate grade levels noted) and additional online resources for Black History Month.

Kodak: Powerful Days in Black and White

(Online). Available: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml (22 January, 2004). This site highlights photos by famous photojournalist Charles Moore that documents some of the most significant moments in Civil Rights history.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project – Stanford University

(Online). Available: http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/ (23 January 2004). Click on the link “Liberation Curriculum” for links to lesson plans, search for quotes, MLK speeches, and the King encyclopedia.

U. S. National Archives and Record Administration – Digital Classroom – Documents Related to Brown v Board of Education (Online). Available: http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/brown_v_board_documents/brown_v_board.html (23 January, 2004). Includes background information and documents, standards correlations, teaching activities, document analysis worksheet, Brown v Board of Education timeline, and related lesson plans.

Western Michigan University – MLK Page

(Online). Available: http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/ (22 January, 2004). This site, created and maintained by the Political Science department at WMU, has an interactive Civil Rights Timeline.

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