Educator Booker T. Washington

NOW ONLINE!

A new educator's site also sponsored by New York Life is now online. THE HISTORY OF THE SUPREME COURT site can be found at www.historyofsupremecourt.org. Created by a collaboration of classroom teachers, historians, and legal scholars, the site presents the history of America's highest court within a series of broad themes drawn from the social studies curriculum. Examples include 'The Court and Gender', 'The Court and Young People', and 'The Court Today', which tracks the present changing Court in real time and focuses on the issues now under consideration.

The series will air during the 2006-2007 broadcast season.

Explore the site at www.historyofsupremecourt.org.

All the tools in this section were developed by teachers, for teachers. Teachers all over the country are working to create lesson plans, activities, WebQuests, and other teaching materials that bring together the PBS television series and the resources on this site to construct teaching aids designed with today's classroom in mind. To learn more about the contributors to this Web site, click here.

If you would like to contribute to this section, please notify us by clicking here.

Make sure to pay a visit to http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow, the official PBS companion site to the series, for more resources for you and your students.

Jim Crow Gateway: Explore teacher and student evaluated Web sites on a wide variety of topics pertaining to Jim Crow history and literature. The sites on this gateway have been recommended for their quality and resource value to teachers and students.

Lesson Plans: Teachers contribute their best lessons on the topics, events, and literature they think are the most important in the Jim Crow years. The lessons also link themselves to one or more of the four episodes of The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow.

Simulations: Students and teachers can use any one of these interactive modules created around Jim Crow, each designed to challenge and motivate students to learn more about this period in history. Historical Simulations, Cognitive Organizers, Essay Questions in a writer's workshop format, mini quizzes, Primary Source Material Analysis, and Prediction Centers create a well-rounded unit of study.

Narratives: The people who came of age in the Jim Crow years, both black and white, offer keen and very personal perspectives on how Jim Crow shaped and still shapes, their lives.

Image Gallery: Teachers now have access to many images that have never before been published online and are exclusive to this site. Actually comprised of several different "collections," the gallery offers teachers and students multiple perspectives on the Jim Crow years.

Encyclopedia: Structured around the thematic Historical Overview in the History section, teachers and students can find more information on terms, people, and events mentioned in the main text. This encyclopedia will continue to grow as more content is added.

National Park Service Online Teaching Resources: The National Park service offers many educational materials for teachers on the topic of Jim Crow. Our teachers have combed the NPS web site and have organized the Jim Crow related historic sites, lessons, and materials for easy access.

National Archives and Records Administration: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent federal agency responsible for preserving and making available the permanently valuable records of the Federal government. The agency's 33 facilities hold about 21.5 million cubic feet of original textual materials--that's more than 5 billion pieces of paper from the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government. The National Archives multimedia collections include nearly 300,000 reels of motion picture film, more than 15 million maps, charts, architectural drawings and aerial photographs, more than 200,000 sound and video recordings, nearly 14 million still pictures and posters, and over 100,000 electronic records files. Many of these records relate to the history of Jim Crow.