Kelly in Kansas

National Archives Resources for Today’s Topics

Project eHIKES

July 11, 2005

1. Digital Classroom

Since we’re centering on the constitution and most materials
are related to the federal government, many lesson plans in the Digital
Classroom fall under this topic. The following are also African American sites:

http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom

Notice the two cases in the spotlight today:

Frontiers in
Civil Rights: The Dorothy Davis Case

The 1964
Civil Rights Case

Now click on Teaching with Documents:

href="http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/teaching_with_documents.html">http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/teaching_with_documents.html

The Amistad Case

Fugitive from Labor Cases: Henry Garnett
(1850) and Moses Honner (1860)

The Fight for Equal Rights: Blacks in the Civil War

Letters,
Telegrams, and Photographs Illustrating Factors that Affected the Civil War

Photographs of
the 369^th Infantry and African Americans During
World War I

style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Documents Related to Brown v. Board of
Education

Jackie
Robinson: Beyond the Playing Field

The Many Face
of Paul Robeson

Court Documents
Related to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis
Sanitation Workers

The Civil
Rights Act and the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission

2. Using ARC

http://arcweb.archives.gov

African American Political Leadership

class=GramE>individual names (Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. class=SpellE>DuBois, A. Philip Randolph, Marcus Garvey)

Tuskegee

NAACP

Searching for Slavery vs. Slave (why?)

Mid-Atlantic
Region – Philadelphia Fugitive
Slave Cases

Civil Rights – why would this term appear so often?

Citing Electronic Records in the National Archives:

href="http://www.archives.gov/publications/general_information_leaflets/17.html#Electronic">http://www.archives.gov/publications/general_information_leaflets/17.html#Electronic