Celebrate Black History Month with Gale’s New African American Literature for Students

| By Sarah Robertson | Black History Month, observed every February, is an opportunity to celebrate African American literature. Through literature, African Americans have advanced a powerful message of agency and countered a dominant cultural discourse of oppression, coercion, and racism. For African American authors, literature has served as a means of validating and valorizing …阅读更多

马丁·路德·金解密:9个的主要来源文件

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Documents inU.S. Declassified Documents Online覆盖范围广泛,从总统备忘录,国家安全委员会的机密文件主题。这九个文件揭示了20世纪50年代,60年代的民权运动期间与马丁·路德·金的活动政府情报。

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金宝搏彩票盖尔的新的黑人历史月电子书集合上GVRL

今年二月,美国各地的教育工作者表彰非裔美国人在历史上发挥了核心作用。它是反思,谦虚,和荣誉的时刻。许多教师利用这段时间来教育和激励学生带来的影响非裔美国人已经通过展示著名电影或纪录片,阅读历史和启发制成块...阅读更多

Female Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement

在黑人历史月,我们庆祝谁做对美国历史影响力的贡献非裔美国人。一个二十世纪最重要的发展是民权运动。许多美国人,黑色和白色两种,在获得争取平等的投票,教育,住房和公共场所对非洲裔美国人。大多数这一时期最著名的民权领袖均为男性,如马丁·路德·金博士,马尔科姆X,梅德加·埃弗斯,和约翰·刘易斯。然而,许多妇女也取得了显著的贡献,包括房利美楼哈默,保利穆雷和多萝西·海特。由于他们的努力,黑人,尤其是在南方,取得了新的法律权利和自由。

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档案松散的和非洲裔历史与人生

The past few years have seen many anniversaries related to African American history and the Civil Rights Movement – 2013, the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech,” stamped the Civil Rights Movement firmly in the minds of Americans and the worldwide community; 2014, the anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction; and, this year is the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which provided additional safeguards for African Americans to exercise their right to the ballot box.

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