ACMAA American Art Connections Center
18 items | 2 visits
Focuses on the visual art that illustrated the issues of protestors in the 1960's.
Updated on May 08, 17
Created on Jan 31, 14
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African-American expressions of writing, music, and art during the 1920s and 1930s are well represented in the vast collections of the Library of Congress. This guide presents the Library's resources as well as links to external Web sites.
The Whitney Museum of American Art. A stunning online space for anyone interested in exploring Jacob Lawrence’s approach to visual storytelling.
Academic Kids Encyclopedia Online. This Wikipedia-style article is a good overview of the movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. This is about all aspects of the period - from literature to visual art to politics. All links lead directly to other encyc
Romare Bearden Foundation. Everything you could want to know about Bearden the artist can be found here, including images of all of his art. Wow. Highly recommended.
Jacob and Gwen Knight Foundation. This amazing artist has inspired millions with his graphic colorful works of people at work and at play. "This site offers information on the art and life of Jacob and Gwen Knight Lawrence and their contribution to Americ
American Social History Project - Center for Media and Learning. Find teaching activities and links to nine different topics covering the period from 1600's to contemporary times. None of these are dull, staid looks at familiar topics. Incorporating media
National Endowment for the Humanities. Photography offers a significant contribution to the story of MLK's civil rights efforts, making the topic - and the man - more real for students. The Amon Carter has many works from the permanent collection that sup
Smithsonian Education. Explore the variety of teaching strategies and guidelines, lesson plans and document-based questions (DBQs), and information about museum objects and other primary sources. You might get started by showing the video, in which Smiths
Smithsonian American Art Museum. One of America's most important African American painters, Johnson is now being recognized as a major figure in twentieth-century American art.
www.poets.org. Students may relate to the frustration in this poem, but few of them face the situation this student faced.
AmericanRhetoric.com. This speech is regarded by many as one of the most important speeches in our history.
Bates College Online. Dr. King had to smuggle this letter out of jail in installments so that it could be printed and made available to the public.
www.history.net. This site provides some good background information on Dr. King's letter and its' impact on our history and the history of oppressed peoples around the world.
Stanford University. Houses the King Papers Project and the Liberation Curriculum Initiative providing document-based lesson plans and information on global efforts to achieve social justice. Pair this with photographs from the Carter for powerful classro
National Gallery of Art. This prolific artist had a long and varied career. Interested in both math and science, his training was firmly grounded in art and art making. Lovely images and biographical information make this a great site.
EDSITEment-Lesson Plans. This talks about my favorite work of art that belongs to our neighbor to the East, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. This is an inspiring work for all for the story it tells and the beauty of the object. Includes other links a
University Libraries - U. of South Carolina. This small digital collection features newsreels of African Americans selected from the period of 1919 to 1963 when "Fox News and Fox Movietone News camera crews covered the people and events of the country and
National Archives. Your tax dollars put to good use! Primary source docs are used by classroom teachers to make students engage with and think about all types of information. Includes tags supporting the Tool used by students, the Historical Era, the Primary Historical Thinking Skill, and the Bloom's Taxonomy tag.
ACMAA American Art Connections Center
18 items | 2 visits
Focuses on the visual art that illustrated the issues of protestors in the 1960's.
Updated on May 08, 17
Created on Jan 31, 14
Category: Not Categorized
URL: