Sixth Grade Research -- Terms to help better understand Mildred Taylor's book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Outstanding Place for Primary Resources:

Library of Congress American Memory Project: "gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the US" (Search your topic and see real newspaper editorials about Jim Crow laws, for example.)

Terms associated with the Great Depression:

Black America in the Depression (in context of PBS series "Jazz")

Bread lines

Crash of '29

Dust Bowl (accompaniment to the PBS presentation "Surviving the Dust Bowl":includes a map and timeline)

Great Depression photographs (courtesy of Historynet)

"Hoovervilles"

New Deal photo gallery (primary source photographs of all the New Deal programs)

The Origins of Jim Crow Laws (courtesy of the Afro American Almanac)

Roosevelt, Franklin D.: (text of selected Fireside Chats)

Roosevelt,Franklin D. : (biographical sketch)

Slave Narratives (courtesy of the Federal Writer's Project, a WPA program from 1936-1938)

Terms associated with Civil Rights:

Black Panthers (Encyclopedia.com)

Bridges,Ruby (PBS interview)

Brown vs. the Board of Education (also from the African American History site)

Civil Rights Era (photographs)

Hamer,Fannie Lou (courtesy of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)

King, Martin Luther Jr. (courtesy of infoplease, includes a valuable timeline)

Parks,Rosa (courtesy of the Rosa Parks Library and Museum)

Malcolm X (includes video clip -- African Americans in the Humanities site)

Marshall,Thurgood (courtesy of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Nonviolent Protests (sit-ins, freedom rides, etc.)

Plessy vs. Ferguson (courtesy of the African American History site)

Taylor, Mildred (courtesy of the Educational Paperback Association)

Other Subjects for Investigation:

Douglas,Frederick (courtesy of the African Americans in the Humanities site)

DuBois W.E.B. (African Americans in the Humanities site)

Truth,Sojourner (courtesy of BrightMoments.com

Tubman,Harriet (courtesy of the Harriet Tubman House)

Washington,Booker T. (courtesy of The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Libraries)

Wells, Ida B.(Women in History site -- with links to other biographical sketches)