Let Freedom Ring: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King Visualize the historic moment of Martin Luther King's stirring "I Have a Dream" speech through text and photographs. See the crowds, hear the words, and let King's powerful imagery awaken your students' thirst for justice in the world today.
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King, Jr., framed the goals and strategies of the Civil Rights Movement for a national audience, and with his message of nonviolent protest, he inspired ordinary African Americans to demand equal rights as American citizens. This lesson will focus on the individual men and women who embraced King�s message and advanced the Civil Rights Movement on a local level. By researching these people and the now historic places where they brought about change, students will discover how the simple act of sitting at a lunch counter in North Carolina could be considered revolutionary, and how, combined with countless other acts of nonviolent protest across the nation, it could lead to major legislation in the area of civil rights for African Americans.
Postwar America:
America in the 50s.
Splitting the Atom The focus of the "splitting-the-atom" story should be on the discovery of nuclear fission and its impact on world affairs. It is important not to overlook the science in this episode when considering the ethical and national-security considerations associated with fission and fusion. It is a measure of its significance that books for the general reader continue to emerge on this subject.
Civil Rights: Welcome to our website. The home of this website is at Stoughton High School, in Stoughton, Massachusetts. The creator of the following pages, Lee Schneider, was assigned to design a website based on Civil Rights. All the information found on these pages was gathered by the rest of Dr. Davis's B and C-hour US in the Modern World classes. We hope you enjoy...