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Hearing About the Bombing of Pearl Harbor: Akiko Kurose

“Akiko Kurose grew up in Seattle, Washington. In this clip, she talks about how she felt when she heard that Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor.”

Densho

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Class Immigration

Subject

History

February 5, 2019

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Making the Decision to Resist the Draft: Frank Yamasaki

“While in the Mindoka concentration camp, Idaho, during World War II, Frank Yamasaki refused his draft order. As a result, he was imprisoned at the McNeil Island Penitentiary, Washington.”

Densho

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Class Immigration Rights & Activism

Subject

History

February 5, 2019

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Understanding Jim Crow

In this transcript, David Cunningham, a prominent professor of sociology, discusses the emergence of Jim Crow laws and their legal and cultural power.

Facing History and Ourselves

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Class Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

Geography

November 3, 2015

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Reflecting on Personal Stories

Students learn about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans from people who lived through it. This video depicts how students use metaphorical thinking to deepen their understanding using the thinking routine, Color-Symbol-Image.

Densho.org

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Class Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

Subject

History

February 22, 2019

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Before Rosa Parks: Frances Watkins Harper

The title “Before Rosa Parks” loosely links a number of lessons that discuss African-American women who were active in the fight for civil rights before the 1950s. This lesson highlights Frances Watkins Harper, who challenged power structures in the South by talking to free former slaves about voting, land ownership and education—and fought segregated public transportation.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

History

July 6, 2009

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Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Conference, 1848

Abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott convened the first women’s rights convention in 1848 in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Their Declaration of Sentiments, modeled after the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, demanded the full rights of citizenship for women.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

July 2, 2014

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Japanese American Responses to Incarceration

This video clip addresses reactions from Japanese Americans to the 8 p.m. curfew, forced imprisonment in internment camps, and creation of the 422nd Regimental Combat Team.

Densho

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Class Immigration Rights & Activism

Subject

History

February 5, 2019

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An Outrage

An Outrage takes viewers to the very communities where heinous acts of violence took place, offering a painful look back at lives lost to lynching and a critical look forward.

Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Geography

September 22, 2017

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Sugar Manufacture in the Antilles Isles

This image is of enslaved black people working on a sugar mill in Antilles as part of the moral and natural history of the Antilles.

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Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

December 15, 2017

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Informational

The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)

A Black radical feminist organization of the 1970s, the Combahee River Collective outline their political ideology in their organization’s statement. They argue that race, gender and class oppression intersect to form new levels of inequalities experienced by Black women.

The Combahee River Collective

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Class Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

Social Studies

History

July 18, 2022

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