World History
For Black History Month, The Good Men Project is highlighting a different black historical figure each day. Toussaint L?Ouverture, above, was the slave leader who led the Haitian slave revolt, which was the first successful slave revolt in history.
Bayard Rustin is pictured below. Ruskin worked in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He also spent time with Gandhi and learned non-violence from him and convinced Dr. Martin Luther King to adopt nonviolence as a political strategy.
Thanks to @RaisingGreatMen for tweeting the link.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is coming up fast. Many teachers are having to come up with ideas for teaching about the slain civil rights leader. Here are a few sites I have discovered recently: Happy Birthday, MLK! - Activities for all grades for learning...
- History Of Haiti
History of Haiti. This is a brief history of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The slave revolt of the late 18th century and early 19th century that lead to freedom is inspiring. The lose of that freedom to dictatorial regimes is not. The Encyclopædia Britannica...
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- The Atlantic Slave Trade In Two Minutes: Animated Graphic
Slate Magazine developed a terrifc graphic that shows the ever-increasing number of slave ships between Africa and America between the 16th and 19th centuries. Here's the way it works: "This interactive, designed and built by Slate?s Andrew...
World History
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Bayard Rustin is pictured below. Ruskin worked in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He also spent time with Gandhi and learned non-violence from him and convinced Dr. Martin Luther King to adopt nonviolence as a political strategy.
Thanks to @RaisingGreatMen for tweeting the link.
- The 47th History Carnival
The 47th History Carnival is up at ProgressiveHistorians. As always, there is a lot of good links to excellent history blogging here. The actual carnival as set up by author Nonpartisan as a conversation between US Senators at a Senate Foreign Relations...
- Some Sites For Teaching About Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is coming up fast. Many teachers are having to come up with ideas for teaching about the slain civil rights leader. Here are a few sites I have discovered recently: Happy Birthday, MLK! - Activities for all grades for learning...
- History Of Haiti
History of Haiti. This is a brief history of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The slave revolt of the late 18th century and early 19th century that lead to freedom is inspiring. The lose of that freedom to dictatorial regimes is not. The Encyclopædia Britannica...
- Jefferson's Children : The Story Of One American Family
Jefferson's Children : The Story of One American Family. This is a review of the book by Shannon Lanier. It is reviewed by Julie Lorenzen. From the review: Shannon Lanier, author of Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American Family, has always...
- The Atlantic Slave Trade In Two Minutes: Animated Graphic
Slate Magazine developed a terrifc graphic that shows the ever-increasing number of slave ships between Africa and America between the 16th and 19th centuries. Here's the way it works: "This interactive, designed and built by Slate?s Andrew...