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Scuola Paritaria – legge 62/2000 – D.D. del 29.12.2000
Circolare n. 31 del 2.02.05
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AI CONSIGLI DELLE CLASSI QUARTE E QUINTE
Lunedì 14 febbraio nell’Aula magna della sede di via Lamennais
dalle ore 11.00 alle ore 12.30
si terrà un intervento organizzato dalla Public Affairs Section of the Consulate General
of the United States sul tema:
“Black History”
L’intervento si svolgerà in inglese con le seguenti modalità:
il console Donald Moore farà un’introduzione storica al Civil Rights Movement;
Mr Wesley Moran (marine) argomento da definire
domande e discussione con gli studenti.
Martedi 15 febbraio nella Palestrina della sede di via Rubattino
dalle ore 10.00 alle 12.00
L’intervento si svolgerà in inglese con le seguenti modalità:
il console Donald Moore farà un’introduzione storica al Civil Rights Movement;
Mrs. Milissa Grant parlerà sul tema “Black America: a Study in Contrast”
domande e discussione con gli studenti.
Vista la disponibilità limitata di posti nelle due sedi, si invitano i consigli di classe
interessati a comunicare la loro adesione all’iniziativa presso la segreteria Attività
Extra-curricolari entro lunedì 7 febbraio.
Invitando i docenti ad introdurre l’argomento in classe prima della partecipazione
all’intervento (vedi in allegato elenco siti WEB consultabili), sono disponibili nelle
biblioteche delle due sedi i seguenti volumi che erano stati donati l’anno scorso dal
Consolato americano alla nostra scuola:
1. ORIGINS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT by Aldon D. Morris
A good overview of the key players and organizations.
2. PARTING THE WATERS by Taylor Branch
Pulitzer Prize winning account of 1954-1963
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3. PILLAR OF FIRE: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS 1963-65 by Taylor Branch
In the second volume of his three-part history, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil
Rights Movement at its zenith.
4. A TESTAMENT OF HOPE : THE ESSENTIAL WRITINGS AND SPEECHES OF
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. by Mlk
Page after page of astounding vision, insight, inspiration and eloquence
5. EYES ON THE PRIZE: AMERICA'S CIVIL RIGHTS YEARS, 1954-1965 by Juan
Willaims
Companion to the acclaimed PBS series. An outstanding contribution to the memory
of the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement.
6. THE CHILDREN by David Halberstam
Halberstam goes back in time to the beginnings of the civil rights movement in
Nashville, Tennessee, tracing both the lives of the individuals who initiated it and the
growth of the movement itself into its present-day status.
7. WALKING WITH THE WIND: A MEMOIR OF THE MOVEMENT by John Lewis and
Michael D’Orso
The great and vastly underrated story of John Lewis.
8. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR by Clayborne Carson
Clayborne Carson has done a great job of combining Mlk's writings and speeches
into a single narrative that tells the story of king's life and the amazing impact he had
on the u.s. civil rights movement.
9. FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM: A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS by John
Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, jr.
The dramatic, exciting, authoritative story of the experiences of african americans
from the time they left africa to their continued struggle for equality at the end of the
twentieth century.
10. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X by Malcolm X
“A great book. Its dead level honesty, its passion, its exalted purpose will make it
stand as a monument to the most painful truth." the Nation.
Il Preside
Prof. Paolo Cella
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Black History Month 2005
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Civil Rights in the United States (Department of State page)
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/civilrights/
Gateway to African American History (Department of State page)
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/blackhis/
African American History Month (Department of State page)
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/blackhis/history/homepage.htm
Originally established as Negro History Week in 1926 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson,
a noted African-American author and scholar, this event evolved into the
establishment in 1976 of February as "Black History Month." This
commemoration has increasingly been referred to as "African-American History
Month," although both names are currently in use.
The 40th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and
Freedom (Department of State page)
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/civilrights/anniversary/
Secretary of State Colin Powell says African-Americans in the United States
have achieved a lot in the last 40 years since the March on Washington that
culminated in Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, but the dream
"is not yet fulfilled."
Photo galleries:
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/civilrights/anniversary/mow01.htm
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/civilrights/anniversary/mowa01.htm
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (Department of State page)
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/blackhis/king/homepage.htm
President Bush, in a proclamation released by the White House January 15,
asked Americans to remember the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the
January 19 federal holiday in honor of the civil rights leader.
African-American History Month: 50 Years of Change
http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/multimedia/AfricanAm.html
U.S. Census Bureau Highlights the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of
Education: new analysis of data shows significant improvements for AfricanAmericans in education and income since the landmark 1954 decision.
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Association for the Study of African-American Life and History
http://www.asalh.com/
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH),
founded on September 9, 1915, by Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson and five others,
in Chicago, is a non-profit, tax-exempt professional organization. Dr. Woodson,
a Harvard trained scholar and international educator, was the son of former
slaves. Woodson realized early the important role of the African American
(then "Negro") in the history of the United States and world and committed his
life to research on the African American past and to the dissemination of
knowledge about the African American in the new world.
Voices of Civil Rights
http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/
AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of
Congress have teamed up to collect and preserve personal accounts of
America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all. We invite you to
explore this site, which serves as both a living memorial to those who were a
part of the civil rights experience and a tribute to the quest for equality that
continues today
Martin Luther King, Jr. Speeches
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/speechesFrame.htm
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is known for being one of the greatest orators of the
twentieth century, and perhaps in all of American history. In the 1950s and
1960s, his words led the Civil Rights Movement and helped change society. He
is best known for helping achieve civil equality for African Americans, but these
speeches--selected because they were each presented at a turning point in the
Civil Rights Movement--show that his true goal was much larger than that: He
hoped to achieve acceptance for all people, regardless of race or nationality.
AFRICAN AMERICAN ART AND LITERATURE
Key sites on African-American Art and Literature (Department of State
page)
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/blackhis/artlit.htm
African-American Texts Online
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/African-American.html
African-American section of the Electronic Text Center of the University of
Virginia
North American Slave Narratives
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http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/neh.html
"North American Slave Narratives" of the University of North Carolina collects
books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African
Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth,
nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS AND E-TEXTS
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE
The United States in 2005: Who We Are Today
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/1204/ijse/ijse1204.htm
The United States in 2005 — who are we? Since there are almost 300 million
U.S. citizens, there are millions of answers to this question.
The United States is growing, home to an ever more diverse population, with
roots that now link us to every corner of the earth. Indeed, the languages we
Americans speak, the places where we worship and the foods on our tables are
a microcosm of the world. We cherish our freedoms and individuality and
expect a brighter future for our children. At the same time, we debate
vigorously among ourselves about how to preserve those freedoms, express our
individuality, and guarantee a better tomorrow.
Black American Literature at Year 2000: A New Presence
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0200/ijse/stepto.htm
Multicultural literature is a major source of insight into the rich cultural
dynamics of our society, a primary medium for Americans to comprehend our
nation's rich cultural heritage, and for international audiences to fathom life and
thought in the United States. In the stories they tell from different points of
view, U.S. authors of a multitude of backgrounds build bridges of understanding
over which all of us can cross into each other's worlds.
The Civil Rights Movement and the Legacy of Martin Luther King
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/civilrts/
A history of the contemporary civil rights movement in the United States,
including a chronology of key events, brief biographical information on two
centuries of African-American leaders, and excerpts from King's speeches and
writings
The Amistad Revolt: A Historical Legacy of Sierra Leone and the
United States
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http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/archive/amistad
A brief factual history of how 53 slaves — captured by the Spanish, principally
from the African colony of Sierra Leone — revolted aboard the transport ship
“Amistad,” were interred in the United States, and eventually won their freedom
through the U.S. judicial system.
FACTS AND STATISTICS ON BLACK AMERICANS
Facts on the Black/African American Population
http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/NEWafamML1.html
Page on statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 17) and African-American History
Month: February 2005
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2005/cb05ff-01-2.pdf
From the census bureau, a recent fact sheet on black Americans including data
and statistics on population, education, income, families, black in the military
The Black Population of the United States: March 2002
http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p20-541.pdf
Released in 2003, this report presents data on the demographic, social, and
economic characteristics of the Black population in the United States, based on
the Annual Demographic Supplement to the March 2002 Current Population
Survey (CPS). The topics covered are geographic distribution; age, sex, and
marital status distribution; family type and family size; educational attainment;
labor force participation and unemployment; occupation; family income; and
poverty status.
Facts for Features: Civil Rights Act of 1964: 40th Anniversary (U.S.
Census Bureau)
http://www.census.gov/PressRelease/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/001800.html
On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
into law. This landmark law prohibits racial discrimination in public
accommodations, publicly owned or operated facilities, employment and union
membership, and voter registration. To mark the anniversary, the Census
Bureau has culled statistics from its reports that depict the progress AfricanAmericans have made since then.
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BASIC DOCUMENTS OF THE HISTORY OF BLACK
AMERICANS
From the website http://www.ourdocuments.gov, which collects the
100 milestone documents of American history
13th
Amendment
to
the
U.S.
Constitution:
Abolition
of
Slavery
14th
Amendment
to
the
U.S.
Constitution:
Civil
Rights
15th
Amendment
to
the
U.S.
Constitution:
Voting
Rights
Brown
vs.
Board
of
Education
Civil
Rights
Act
Emancipation
Proclamation
Official
Program
for
the
March
on
Washington
Voting
Rights
Act
(1865)
(1868)
(1870)
(1954)
(1964)
(1863)·
(1963)
(1965)