English 9 - Civil Rights Resources
SECONDARY LIBRARY CATALOG: Click on the words "Library Catalog" above to find books in our secondary school library. Visit the library to check them out. Search for a specific title or type in the word biography in the search box to see what biographies are in the library.
ELEMENTARY LIBRARY CATALOG: Click on the words "Library Catalog" above to find books in our elementary school library. Email or ask Mrs. Heilig to bring them to you from the elementary. Search for a specific title or type in the word biography in the search box to see what biographies are in the library.
EBOOKS FROM MISSISSIPPI BEND AEA 9: Click on the mackinVIA icon to search for ebooks. Log in with the school's AEA username and password from your teacher or librarian. Choose Categories from the left hand side of the page. Choose biographies. There are 72 biographies in ebook format on this site.
Search these online resources from our AEA:
Britannica School Online Encyclopdia Log in with the school's AEA username and password from your teacher or librarian. Choose a grade level to get started.
Gale Power Search Content from magazine, newspapers, and reference materials. (Log in with the school's AEA username and password.)
Learn360 Videos - Videos, images, audio files, newsreels, and speeches. (Log in with the school's AEA username and password.)
AP Images - Photographs, sound bites, maps, charts, timelines, and text news stories. (Log in with the school's AEA username and password.)
AEA Media Catalog Click on the AEA Media Catalog link and choose "browse as guest" to find books at the AEA that can be delivered to the high school. Write down the information about the book and ask your teacher or librarian to order it.
The Iowa Locator Click on the Iowa Locator link to find items in Iowa Public Libraries. Ask your local public library to have the title sent there, and you may check it out from the public library when it arrives.
I will bring some books to your classroom that may help you with your research. If you don’t find what you need, you can still look at our library catalog. Go to the links on the left. On these pages you can go to the high school AND elementary library catalogs. If you find something at the elementary, I can bring it over to you. There are also some ebooks from MACKIN VIA (use the AEA password) that may help you with your research.
People & Events of The Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr. - life, work, and assassination
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Little Rock 9 & Little Rock Central High School
Protests
Integration
Freedom Riders
Sit-ins
Boycotts
Segregation
Selma to Montgomery March
March on Washington
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Black Panthers
Malcolm X
Deaths of Emmet Till
Death of Medgar Evers
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Brown vs. Board of Education
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1965
Also, try these Search Engines instead of Google to look for information about your topic:
http://www.ipl.org/ (Internet Public Library)