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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sojourner Truth, Ruby Bridges & Jackie

Robinson

Bessie Coleman, Boys Without

Names & Harriet Tubman

Martin Luther King, Jr., Students On Strike &

Harriet Tubman

Matthew Henson, The Journal of Joshua

Loper, &Muhammad Ali

A Civil Rights Virtual Museum

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Note: Virtual museums were first introduced by educators at Keith Valley Middle School in Horsham, Pennsylvania. This template was designed by Lindsey Warneka under the direction of Dr. Christy Keeler during a Teaching American History grant module. View the Educational Virtual Museums website for more information on this instructional technique.

A Civil Rights Virtual Museum

Created by The 5th-grade

library classWebster Christian

School

Based on thebiographies &historical fiction books they read

Name of MuseumSojourner Truth, Ruby Bridges & Jackie Robinson

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Harriet Tubman

Boys Without Names

Name of MuseumMatthew Henson, The Journal of Joshua Loper, &

Muhammad Ali

The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy

Name of MuseumMartin Luther King, Jr., Students On Strike &

Harriet Tubman

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the most important people in the civil rights movement. He fought for rights in a nonviolent way.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Sojourner Truth was a freed slave who was born in 1797. She was married and had 4 children. She gave speeches and sang hymns for civil rights until she died in 1883.By: LF.By Randall Studio (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons from Wikimedia Commons<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sojourner_truth_c1870.jpg>

Sojourner Truth

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Ruby was an African American who went to a white school. The kids did not like that so they left. Ruby changed that and now she has tons of white friends.

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Ruby Bridges

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Jackie Robinson was a black baseball player. He was the first African American to play major league baseball.

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Jackie Robinson

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Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman pilot. She went to France to get her pilot license. When she returned home she decided to be a stunt devil.

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Bessie Coleman

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This historical fiction book is about slavery in India, and how people got kidnapped. Slavery is illegal there, but people kidnapped children and forced them to work.

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Boys Without Names, by Kashmira Sheth

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Harriet Tubman was a Christian. She came up with the Underground Railroad.She was 6 or 7 years old when she got her first job.

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Harriet Tubman

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Matthew Henson was an African American polar explorer. He met Robert Peary and they started a expedition. On April 6 1909, Henson and Peary made it to the North Pole.

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From Matthew A. Henson: A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (New York, 1912). Retreived from http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20923/20923-h/20923-h.htm.

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Matthew Henson

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Joshua Loper was on the Chisholm Trail in 1871. He died on March 15, 1920. His wife Carrie died on September 2, 1933. Joshua Loper`s journal wasn’t found until his wife died. The book and the journal are both fiction.Image captured from Follett Titlewave

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The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy, by Walter D. Myers

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Harriet Tubman was one of the most famous leaders of the Underground Railroad. She also made 20 dangerous trip to save many slaves.

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HARRIET TUBMAN

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Muhammad Ali was a famous boxer. He won the world title two times.

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By Ira Rosenberg [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons from Wikimedia Commons

Muhammad Ali

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Martin Luther King Jr. was a great civil rights leader. He married a girl named Corretta Scott.

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Image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg

By Dick DeMarsico, World Telegram staff photographer [Public domain],

Martin Luther King Jr.

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John Stokes didn’t like school segregation. He and his classmates went on strike for his school. Eventually they got their rights.

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Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown and Me, by John Stokes et. al.

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Harriet Tubman was part of the Underground Railroad. She freedover 8,000 slaves.

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Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman by Sarah H Bradford.

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Harriet Tubman

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