Black History Month - Biographies

Rick Kloepfer, Learning Support

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Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks: The Woman Who Changed a Nation
http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html

Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution
http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html

How I Fought for Civil Rights - Rosa Parks
http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/

The Life of Rosa Parks
http://www.tsum.edu/museum/parksbio.htm

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Martin Luther King, Jr

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/autobiographyFrame.htm

M. L. King & the Civil Rights Movement
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/

The King Center
http://thekingcenter.com/
This has sound!

Martin Luther King National Park Site
http://www.nps.gov/malu/

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Nelson Mandela

Profile of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
http://www.anc.org.za/people/mandela.html

The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela: An Intimate Portarait of one of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Leaders
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/

Nelson Mandela
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/mandela.html

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/Mandela/achap02.html

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Jackie Robinson

About Jackie Robinson
http://www.jackierobinson.org/aboutjackie/index03.htm

Beyond the Playing Field - Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/jackie_robinson/jackie_robinson.html

Jackie Robinson: He thrilled fans, shattered baseball's color barrier and changed the face of the nation
http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/robinson01.html

FIA - Jackie Robinson (Freedom of Information Act)
http://foia.fbi.gov/robinson.htm

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York County School of Technology

Updated last - 18 February 2004