MS - ZIS Middle School Library Resources: The New Narrative

• Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development

  The official web site of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. This organization was co-founded in 1987 by Rosa Parks and Elaine Eason Steele, in honor of Rosa Parks' husband Raymond Parks (1903-1977). In part, its mission is to motivate young people between the ages of 11-17, to reach their full potential.
• The Civil Rights Era

  Here exhibits from historic archives explain how the black community experienced this postwar period with desegregation, legal victories, and protest marches.
  Greensboro Sit-Ins
• Heavy television coverage of the Greensboro sit-ins sparked a sit-in movement that spread quickly to college towns throughout the South and into the North, as young blacks and whites joined in various forms of peaceful protest against segregation in libraries, beaches, hotels and other establishments.
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  This web site provides the user with a glimpse into the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC) over a six year period (1960-1966). The authors of the site provide information on important events that SNCC participated in during its early days. It also gives brief biographical information on the leadership of SNCC.  

  Life: Martin Luther King March on Washington 1963 | The March on Washington, August 1963: Power to the People

   

  NPR : The March on Washington

   

  PBS American Experience: Eyes on the Prize: March on Washington

Life Magazine

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

Television News of the Civil Rights Era,1950-1970

Teaching American History

Timeline

See how key events in King's life connect with those of the civil-rights movement.

• Examples of Civil Disobedience - The Guardian
• Gandhi Leads Civil Disobedience
• Bringing Down an Empire
• Gandhi - Biography.com

• Gandhi - Biography.com

  The Biography Channel tells the story of Gandhi.
• Gandhi Serve Foundation

  Mahatma Gandhi's photographs, films, audio and video clips, and other media and information for research and education on peace and nonviolence ...
• Gandhi Primary Sources

  This site tells about Gandhi's life of nonviolence, provides primary documents, and compares his struggle to MLK.
• Little Known Gandhi Facts

  6 facts about Gandhi you may not know.
• Article about Gandhi
• Assassination of Gandhi

  Eyewitness to History article about the death of Gandhi.
• Timeline of Gandhi's Life
• Support Civil Disobedience - Salt March
• Bejing Tank Man
• PRO/CON on Civil Disobedience

• The invention and history of the printing press
• The printing press

• In the footsteps of the revolution

  What the memorable places of the 1917 revolution look like today
• Politics, Propaganda and People's Art of the “Great” Socialist October Revolution

  This is the virtual counterpart of a physical exhibition that is dedicated to the centenary of the Russian Revolution.
• Posters of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1922

  New York Public Library digital exhibit

JAPAN & CHINA

BBC - Japanese Expansion

Japanese militarism and expansion

BBC - Long term effects China-Japan Relations

BBC - Nanjing Massacre

Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere

Manchuria Documents & Analysis