Student Challenge: Who Changed the Course of U.S. History without Uttering a Word?

Posted on December 4, 2015

Good question, isn’t it? Where can students go to find the answer?

简历在上下文for starters, where you’ll find a feature this month on the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,Rosa Parks.她安静的坐在一个“白人专用”公共汽车的部分在1955年12月1日,在民权运动镀锌支持,激起自由乘车者,抵制和静坐的蔑视。交通运输学生的时间早在我们国家的历史上参观这个动荡的时代 - 学生可以阅读有关公园和她的工作,听到她在视频说话,看她的雕像,奥巴马总统在国会大厦亮相。

This year also marks the 50thanniversary of theVoting Rights Act学生资源在上下文涵盖了法律先例以及最近它的挑战。而在主题,Women’s Suffragehit the big screen recently, and the fascinating stories behind that movement can be found inUS History In Context. Read Susan B. Anthony’s “Speech on the Right of Women’s Suffrage,” from 1873, when she was arrested for the having the audacity to vote! Look at photos of suffrage parades, read the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, as well as other primary sources from Carrie Chapman Catt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others.

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