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Emancipation posterCommon Ground is a race initiative launched by CET in 2001 following the riots in April. This site includes multimedia tools, including local programs that can be streamed or requested free by southwestern Ohio teachers through CET's Video on Demand service. There are lesson plans available through the site that are correlated to Ohio Academic Content Standards, and additional resources on civil rights and multicultural issues in Cincinnati.

civilrights.org is a collaboration of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. The website serves "as the site of record for relevant and up-to-the minute civil rights news and information." The site features a civil rights glossary, timeline, speeches and other key information.

Civil Rights Law and History was designed for students by the Department of Justice, the government agency that enforces civil rights laws. The site has an overview of civil rights, and takes students step by step through the history of civil rights in the U. S.

Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement is a site developed by CNNinteractive that gives the dates for major events since the 1960s, but also for early civil rights efforts. "The history of the civil rights movement in the United States actually begins with the early efforts of the fledgling democracy," such as happened in 1783, when Massachusetts outlawed slavery within its borders.

The End of the Civil Rights Movement? is a U.S. history lesson plan for grades six through eight provided by discoveryschool.com. The lesson provides objectives, materials needed, adaptations, discussion questions, and resource material, as well as information on how the lesson meets general academic standards for U.S. history.

The National Civil Rights Museum provides a virtual tour of the museum. Each page provides a brief description of key events in the civil rights struggle and brings the issues of the civil rights movement up to current day.

Slavery Today Most people think that slavery has been abolished. The reality is that slavery continues today, throughout the world, even in the United States. This website describes the different ways people, including children, are enslaved and where this practice still exists today.

Modern Slavery is an Information Please article on slavery that is being practiced today in Africa, Asia, and the Dominican Republic.

 

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