Civil Rights Web Quest

You are about to visit at least four web sites (out of six) related to the civil rights movement. Spend 5-7 minutes at each web site reading through the text and looking at any pictures or video clips and listening to any audio clips that you find. Use your worksheet to take notes on:

• what interests you and what you would like to learn more about
• what artifacts you notice (artifacts could be pictures, quotes, audio or video clips, documents, or even personal stories to the time)
• how we could use those artifacts in our museum

P.S. All links to web sites outside the web quest will open in a new window. You should keep this page open and come back to it when you are done reading and taking notes on each site.

"The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow" from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow

"The Jim Crow era was one of struggle -- not only for the victims of violence, discrimination, and poverty, but by those who worked to challenge (or promote) segregation in the South."

This site presents videos, audio clips, photos, and documents that show what the world looked like under Jim Crow laws, which enforced strict segregation of the races in the South.

"Brown v. Board of Education" from Freedom: A History of Us
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/ web13/segment8.html

"Does segregation break the rules of the Constitution? Marshall and the lawyers for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People say it does."

This site presents audio clips, photos, and a document related to the Supreme Court case that integrated schools. Take the time to read both pages (Segment 8, Pages 1 and 2) and think about how this description tells the story of the court case.

"They Changed the World: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott" from The Montgomery Advertiser
http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/

"When Rosa Parks refused on the afternoon of Dec. 1, 1955, to give up her bus seat so that a white man could sit, it is unlikely that she fully realized the forces she had set into motion and the controversy that would soon swirl around her."

The Montgomery Advertiser, an Alabama newspaper, presents this multimedia web site that includes lots of old and new articles, photographs, firsthand stories of the boycott, and video.

"Central High" from Freedom: A History of Us
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/ web14/segment3.html/

"The first day I was able to enter Central High School, what I felt inside was terrible, wrenching, awful fear. On the car radio I could hear that there was a mob."

Another web page from the "History of Us" series, this three-page article combines storytelling, photos, audio clips, and documents to tell this story of school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas, when President Eisenhower sent federal troops to protect the new black students.

"Powerful Days in Black and White" from Kodak.com
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/ corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml

"Charles Moore didn't plan to photograph the civil rights movement.... When an argument broke out between the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and two policemen, Moore was the only photographer on the scene."

This site contains only black and white photographs, all taken by one man. Click on words like "powerful" and "attacked" to view a new photo. What do these photos tell us about the civil rights movement and how could we use them to tell a new story?

"Martin Luther King, Jr." from Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/

"We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks and bottles. We don't need any Molotov cocktails. We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, 'God sent us by here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right.'"

This site provides an overview of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., and his impact on the civil rights movement. Check out the photo gallery, timeline, "His Words" for quotes, and the other resources on this site.

Ms. Ahart is your friendly neighborhood librarian. She would like you to take a minute to look back over this presentation (scroll up!) to notice how she presented information, how her pages are designed, and how she described each link for you before you opened it AND told you where it came from. TAKE NOTE!

For more great web sites, visit the Civil Rights Pathfinder.

For more resources, visit the Civil Rights Pathfinder

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