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URLwire
for Monday, May 17, 2004
Imagine learning about the civil rights movement directly from the people who were there Rosa Parks describes her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Reverend C.T. Vivian and Zecosy Williams reflect on the voting rights struggle in Alabama, and Miriam McClendon remembers what it was like to be arrested and jailed at age fourteen when she participated in the Childrens Crusade of 1963. These voices and many more are part of The Civil Rights Special Collection launching on Teachers Domain the week of May 17th to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Courts Brown v. Board of Education ruling. After a brief registration, The free collection is available via http://www.teachersdomain.org/special/civil/preview/ The Civil Rights Special Collection on Teachers Domain, a free digital library of multimedia resources for classroom and independent study, captures the voices, images, demonstrations, and resistance that defined the Civil Rights movement through interview segments filmed for Eyes on the Prize, primary source materials and oral histories from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and archival video and audio segments from American Experience, Frontline, Peoples Century, and other WGBH productions. Why was Brown v. Board of Education so controversial? Why did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on a bus? What happened when two interracial bus rides through the South tested a Supreme Court ruling? Why were 2,000 schoolchildren arrested for marching? How did the law change over time? This collection explores these questions and more. Organized by topics including legal strategies, voting rights, mass protest, leaders and organizers, and culture of the movement, the Civil Rights Special Collection will continue to expand throughout the year. The resources are accompanied by lesson plans, correlations to standards, and resource management tools to facilitate teachers use of the library. The Civil Rights Special Collection
is an offering of Teachers' Domain (http://www.teachersdomain.org),
a free online digital library of K-12 resources correlated to national
and state standards, which include background essays, lesson plans, and
customizable resource management tools to facilitate use by teachers in
the classroom. The Teachers Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
is produced by WGBH Boston in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights
Institute and Washington University in St. Louis. Funding is provided by
the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
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