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Primary Source
Don’t Buy a Ford Ever Again, ca. 1960
Teaching Resource
Immigration Policy in World War II
The day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt suspended naturalization proceedings for Italian, German, and Japanese immigrants, required them to register, restricted their mobility, and prohibited them from owning items that might be used for sabotage, such as cameras and shortwave radios. The curfews on Italian immigrants were lifted in October 1942, on Columbus Day.Approximately 600,000 Italian aliens lived in the United States in 1940. About 1,600 Italian citizens were interned, and about 10,000 Italian-...
Teaching Resource
The Promise of Democracy
Source
JFK's Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum (full text and audio available)
Background Information
This document will be used to demonstrate the response of the federal government to citizen activism. The document is President Kennedy's response...
Teaching Resource
TITLE IX: Striving for Gender Equity in Athletics
Objectives
Students will examine primary documents and secondary sources to analyze gender equity during the last quarter of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Students will be able to identify the major social and economic trends of the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Students will be able to examine the effects of activism in the twentieth century and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on the passage of...
Teaching Resource
Lyndon Johnson’s Commencement Address at Howard University
Document
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Commencement Address at Howard University: “To Fulfill These Rights,” June 4, 1965, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library
Background InformationOn June 4, 1965, Lyndon Johnson gave a commencement address to students at Howard...
Teaching Resource
The Civil Rights Revolution: Interpreting Statistics
African American Voting Registrations
Questions to Think About
What difference did the Voting Rights Act make in black voter participation?
In which states was the impact greatest?
Questions to...
Teaching Resource
First Day of Integration at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas
Sources
Students Entering School Building, National Park Service
Book: Daisy Bates, The Long Shadow of Little Rock (1962), or online at Civil Rights Teaching
Background Information
On the first day of integration at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, angry mobs protested outside the school. Eight of the Little Rock Nine, the African...
Teaching Resource
Evaluating Lyndon B. Johnson’s Character and Efforts during the Civil Rights Era
Background Information
In 1969 Thomas Baker conducted an interview with Roy Wilkins, executive directory of the NAACP, based on Wilkins’s experiences with Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. This abridged version of the interview enlightens students about Lyndon Johnson in particular about his relationship with Roy Wilkins and his efforts to address (or not address) issues during the Civil Rights Movement. Students will be able to collectively analyze this document and evaluate the degree to which Johnson was involved...