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Essential Question: How do the diverse groups within our community contribute to our community’s cultural wealth?
Essential Question: How do the diverse groups within our community contribute to our community’s cultural wealth?
Resources to Use
Resources to Use
Websites
Websites
University of California Calisphere
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African American Community
African American Community
Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park (California State Parks)
Rare Maps Reveal Fresno's Overlooked History Of Segregation (KVPR)
Summer of Change: Inside Martin Luther King Jr.’s Rally in Fresno (Fresnoland)
Mattie Meyers, 1924-2017: Fresno Civil Rights Activist, Educator (Fresno Bee)
California Cultures: African Americans - Gold Rush Era to 1900 (Calisphere)
A History of Black Americans in California (National Parks Service)
Diversity In Fresno: How Racial Covenants Once Ruled Prestigious Neighborhoods (KVPR)
Armenian Community
Armenian Community
Armenian Genocide: 100 Years Later, History Not Forgotten (Fresno Bee)
Armenians in the California Raisin Industry (Fresno Past and Present)
Just Beneath the Dirt: Where Fresno's Racism Began (Fresno Bee)
What Were The Early Days Like For Fresno’s Armenian Immigrants? Our Trip To A Museum (KVPR - Audio - Podcast)
A History of Armenian Americans in Fresno:1919-1939 (CSU Northridge)
Chinese Community
Chinese Community
Hispanic Community
Hispanic Community
A History of Mexican Americans in California (National Parks Service)
California Cultures: Hispanic Americans - Migrant Workers and Braceros, 1930s-1964 (Calisphere)
Workers United: The Delano Grape Strike and Boycott (National Parks Service)
The United Farm Workers and the Delano Grape Strike (Digital Public Library of America)
Fresno’s Hispanic Heritage: Mexicans in the Valley, 1900-1930 (Fresno Historical Society)
Fresno’s Hispanic Heritage: Hard Times and War Time, 1930-1950 (Fresno Historical Society)
California Ranchos (California Missions Foundation)
Italian Community
Italian Community
About Baldassare Forestiere and Forestiere Underground Gardens
From Italy to California: Italian Immigration 1850 to Today (Museo Italoamericano)
Italian Immigration in San Joaquin County (Lodi Historical Society Newsletter)
Documenting Italian American Communities in California (Berkley Library)
Creative Responses to the Italian Immigrant Experience in California (California Italian American Project)
The Italian immigration to California (YouTube - Professor Luca Coniglio)
Native American Community
Native American Community
California Slaughter: The State-Sanctioned Genocide of Native Americans (Fresno Historical Society)
A History of American Indians in California (National Parks Service)
California Cultures: Native Americans - The 19th Century (Calisphere)
Tachi-Yokut Tribe (Tribal Website)
Yokut Indian Tribe (Newman Museum)
A short overview of California Indian History (CA Native American Heritage Commission)
Native American Resilience: The Tachi Yokut Tribe and the Preservation of Tribal History and Tradition (University of California EScholar)
Native Americans of the Stanislaus Region (Be sure to click on the Social Studies Fact Cards)
The Miwok People (California State Parks)
Indian Hospital at Clovis is First of Kind in West (Fresno County Historical Society)
Swedish Community
Swedish Community
Swedish Immigration to California (Pg 4, Vestkusten, April 1978)
Swedish Immigration to North America (Augustana College Library Exhibit)
Swedish Immigration to North America (Swenson Swedish American Research Center)
Volga German Community
Volga German Community
Early Industry and Agricultural Practices (American Historical Society of Germans from Russia)
Germantown, Fresno: Historical Context -pages 6-29 (City of Fresno)
History of Germans from Russia (North Dakota State University Library)
Databases
Databases
Citing Sources
Citing Sources
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