• Anti- German Movement
  • American Posters of World War I <http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/amposter.htm
• Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 and the Transcontinental Railroad
  • Immigration and Naturalization Legislation <http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis>
    This page gives some recent statistics related to immigration and naturalization from the US Department of Homeland Security.
  • Population Resource Center - US Immigration: A Legislative History <http://www.prcdc.org/summaries/usimmighistory/usimmighistory.html>
    This overview highlights the history of U.S. immigration legislation and the parallel rise and fall in numbers and changing ethnic makeup.
    
  • Angel Island <http://www.donaldlaird.com/landmarks/counties/500-599/529.html>
    See photographs of the immigration station.
• Civil Rights, Black Panthers, Little Rock H.S.
  • American Civil Rights Institute <http://www.acri.org/>
    "A national civil rights organization created to educate the public about racial and gender preferences."
  • Black Panther Party <http://www.bobbyseale.com/phototour/>
    Historic photos and some information about this party.
  • Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary <http://www.centralhigh57.org/>
    This site presents photos and stories surrounding the Little Rock Nine, nine African-American students who participated in desegregation in the late 1950s. Read The Tiger, the high school's student newspaper during this time or video historic video clips of the students' entry into school at that time. Also, find out where the nine are today.
  • School Integration in Little Rock, Arkansas <http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/schoolintegration/lilrock/index.html>
  • National Civil Rights Museum: Virtual Tour <http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/>
    Take a virtual tour of the Civil Right Movement.
  • A Short History of American Civil Rights Laws <http://www.withylaw.com/history.htm>
    Timeline of American civil rights laws from 1776 to 1991
• Democratic Convention of 1968
  • Chicago 68’ <http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1553/>
    About the events during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
  • NewsHour Online: <http://www.pbs.org/newshour/convention96/retro/chicago.html>
    Retrospective on the 1968 Democratic Convention - includes Terry Southerns' first-hand account of the events.
• Feminism 1848-1920, ERA 1921-1995
  • Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1998 <http://www.legacy98.org/>
    Timeline, detailed history of the movement, today's issues, and more.
  • One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview <http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html>
    A short timeline of the women's suffrage movement from 1776 to 1923.
  • Votes for Women <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html>
    The Library of Congress presents history of and information on women's suffrage.
  • Chronology of the Equal Rights Movement <http://now.org/issues/economic/cea/history.html>
  • The Equal Rights Amendment <http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/>
• Ghost Dancers (Wounded Knee, 1889)
  • Wounded Knee Home Page <http://www.dickshovel.com/WKmasscre.html>
    History and chronology of the events at Wounded Knee
• Japanese-American Internment
  • American Concentration Camps: Map <http://www.csuohio.edu/art_photos/map.html>
    Click on a location and see photographs of the camps.
  • Children of the Camps <http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/>
    This site from PBS presents the history behind the internment and how it impacted six Japanese-Americans who were children in the camps.
  • Internment and Evacuation of San Francisco Japanese | 1942 <http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html>
    From the Museum of the City of San Francisco, this site provides newspaper article accounts of the evacuation.
  • Japanese American National Museum <http://www.janm.org/main.html
• Kent State Massacre
  • Kent May 4 Center <http://www.may4.org/>
    This site explores the events and people of this ocurrence.
  • May 4.Net (Sponsored by Kent State University) <http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70/>
    An online resource to Inquire, Learn and Reflect about May 4, 1970.
    
• KKK in the 1920’s, Emergency Quota Act, Nat. Origins Acts (1924)
  • US citizenship and Immigration Services <http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis>
    
  • Poisoning the Web: Hatred On-line (Anti-Defamation League) <http://www.adl.org/poisoning_web/poisoning_toc.asp>
  • KKK- A Hundred Years of Terror <http://iupui.edu/~aao/kkk.html>
    A special report prepared by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL
• Nat Turner’s Rebellion
  • Nat Turner's Rebellion <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html>
    A PBS documentary
  • Slave Rebellion of General Nat Turner - overview of the uprising, with quotes from participants, survivors, and observers. <http://rwor.org/a/v19/940-49/945/turner.htm
• Red Scare/Palmer Raids
  • Cold War Experience <http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/06/>
  • Palmer Raids <http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Palmer/>
    Student project from James Madison College at Michigan State University
• Ryan White, Ryan White Act
  • The Ryan White Story <http://geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/8222/ryan>
  • The Ryan White Care Act and other Issues <http://www.thebody.com/aac/may396.htm
• Scopes Trial / Sacco-Vanzetti Case
  • Famous Trials <http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/ftrials.htm>
    Contains information about both the Scopes and Sacco-Vanzetti trials
  • Scopes Trial <http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Scopes/>
    Includes pictures, cartoons, and research from Michigan State.
  • Overview of The Sacco-Vanzetti Case - from the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
    <http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sacvan.html>
  • Sacco-Vanzetti Case <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsacco.htm>
• Yellow Journalism, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Muckrakers
  • Virtual Museum of History – Jounalism (yellow journalism and muckraking)<http://virtualology.com/virtualmuseumofhistory/hallofrhetoric/journalism/>
  • Yellow Journalism <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAyellow.htm>
  • Upton Sinclair, a biography <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jupton.htm>
  • Muckraking Journalism <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jmuckraking.htm>
  • Upton Sinclair (sunsite.berkley.edu) <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Sinclair>

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