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Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance Links --all kinds of links though you'll have to do some looking. 
Harlem Renaissance --Perspectives on American Literature. 
Harlem Renaissance --directory info from about.com.
Harlem Renaissance --many links here.

Civil Rights 1940's and Today

1941-1973 --basic info to get you started.  Click on the names and click on the dates. 
Tuskegee --black airmen during WWII. 
Zoot Suit Riots --history of what happened. 
Atlanta --click through the years for lots of info.

Issues Today --what are they?  
Timeline 1954 through 2007 --Emmett Till's case officially closed. 

Compare and Contrast 1940's to Today

1940's --links from the UK.
1940's --Kingwood College Library page. 
1940's --timeline.
1940's --fashion.

Google News --view the news as it happens.
Info Please --Timeline year by year. 
Media 1969-2007 --click on the years to see the progression of media through the years. 
21st Century --Wikipedia, much as it pains me, it's a good entry for this topic.

Communism 1940's - 1960's

Washington State 1940 --history and memory project. 
American History  --decades information. 
Soviet Perceptions --reasons to interceed. 
Growth of anti-Communist network  --why were they so hated?

Cold War --What was the Cold War all about? 
Communism 1960's --from Encarta.
Communism in the Third World --in the dominican Republic. 
Cold War --tons of links.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Abraham Maslow --basic info. 
Theory of Human Motivation --scroll down for the diagram. 
The Hierarchy --in diagram form. 
Using Maslow's Hierarchy --scroll down until you see this section.

Jim Crow Laws

History of Jim Crow --many links. 
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow --by PBS.
Who was Jim Crow --some background.
Black Codes --one way to keep the "white" way of life alive in the south.

Slave & Tenant life in the South

South and Slavery  --many links here and many on the left. 
First Person Narratives of the American South --many from slaves and tennant farmers. 
Religious Life of the Slaves --family and religion sometimes were all lthey had.
Slavery and the Making of America --from PBS.

Slavery in the US --many links here. 
Tenant farmers in Arkansas --a picture of life.  
Tenant farmers in Mississippi --sharing in the land. 
Tenant farmers  --Texas.

Pre-Civil Rights era & Post-Civil War

Brown v. Board of Education --can't understand the struggle without understanding this case.
Brown v. Board of Education --by PBS. 
Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965 --an index to links for this era.
Rosa Parks --who she was and what she did. 

Plessy v. Ferguson --what happened when a black man sat in a "white" railcar.  
Rosa Parks --who she was and what she did.
After the Civil War --state of the blacks  
The Dred Scott Case --where it all began.