Divided and United
This lesson investigates the causes of the Civil War and its effects on the American people Izzy travels to Alabama, where she learns about the Civil War from the perspective of a white farmer and confederate soldier, and about the Civil Rights movement from an African-American woman in Montgomery. Watch a video clip from this program!
How did African Americans resist slavery before the Civil
War?
Underground
Railroad
The African-American:
A Journey from Slavery to Freedom
The
Underground Railroad (National Geographic Online)
Aboard the Underground
Railroad (National Park Service)
Map of
common routes to freedom
The
Underground Railroad Site at UC Davis
Buxton Historic
Site and Museum (Underground Railroad - Canada)
American
Slave Narratives
Born in Slavery:
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project
"Them
Dark Days": The Arkansas Slave Narratives
Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl
Boston African American National
Historic Site
Exploring
Amistad
Africans in
America: Judgment Day
American
Visionaries: Frederick Douglas
Black Resistance: Slavery
in the U.S.
African
American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
Ontario Black History Society
Archives
Describe the course of the Civil War and its effects on
the American people.
A Nation Divided
Free at Last:
Documents on Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War
Civil
War and the 19th Century
U.S. Civil War Center
Historic Photographs
from the Military History Institute
Selected Civil War Photographs
from the Library of Congress
Pictures
of the Civil War from the National Archives
Civil War @ Smithsonian
The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors
Database
The Valley of the Shadow: Two
Communities in the American Civil War
Manassas Battlefield National
Park
Symbols of Battle:
Civil War Flags in National Park Collections
Civil War Battle
Flags from the Old Statehouse Museum
Africans in America:
The Civil War
The Memoirs, Diary and Life of
Private Jefferson Moses
The Story of
One Union Soldier
The Apotheosis
of General Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
The Emancipation
Proclamation
Lincoln Home National Historic
Site
Ford's Theatre National Historic
Site
Who are some important people and events in the modern Civil
Rights movement?
Rosa
Parks Biography
Rosa Parks
Interview
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic
Site
Martin Luther King Jr. Papers
Project
Martin Luther King Jr.
from the Seattle Times
Our Shared History:
Celebrating African-American History and Culture
Stamp on Black
History
Plessy
vs. Ferguson
National Civil
Rights Museum
Harlem: 1900-1940
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