Useful+Websites


 * The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project ** site provides complete citation information for all of King’s published works, audio clips, and famous quotes, plus his biography, chronology, and historical background. The site also contains great ideas for lesson plans. One of the best features is the audio of King’s speeches as well as written version. http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/liberation_curriculum/

The **Eyes on the Prize** website explores 25 major events of the civil rights movement based on the documentary. This particular page contains information on the March on Washington. The site has audio, video, pictures and editorials taken from the day itself. For teachers there is help that includes materials by grade level and suggestions of other educators. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/08_washington.html
 * Voice of Civil Rights Era ** website features a searchable online archive of selected stories submitted by people from every corner of the country and from all walks of life. In addition, there are interactive features, essays, interviews, and special reports. The site contains a time of events as well as quizzes to test civil rights knowledge. http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/history.html

The **Tolerance** website is a subsidiary of the Southern Poverty Law center designed to help dismantle bigotry and hate. It is important to give student the tools to understand the underlying factors of the movement, including the means that can relate to their lives. This particular site has activities for both students and teachers to relate to the idea of tolerance. http://www.tolerance.org/teach/resources/mighty_times.jsp

The **Smithsonian Institution** has a great website on the Supreme Court case; //Brown vs. the Board of Education.// The site includes a great resource page including a guide for teachers. One page encourages individuals to post how desegregation has affected their lives. The site uses political cartoons to help depict the feelings of both sides of segregations. http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/index.html


 * EDSITEMent** (http://edsitement.neh.gov/ ) is a website with resources and lesson plans for history, social studies, literature, language arts, foreign languages, arts, and culture. The site includes a webpage for lesson plans on the civil rights, many of the lesson plans could be done with Web 2.0 technology.  http://edsitement.neh.gov/tab_lesson.asp?subcategory=20&grade=0&Display=Display