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Educational Support Materials for the exhibit...
FREEDOM TOUR
MARCH 13, 2003 THROUGH APRIL 18, 2003
SOURCES ABOUT CURRENT ISSUES
From a variety of viewpoints on FREEDOM
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WEB SITES
www.firstamendmentcenter.org - annual report on survey of public views on the First Amendment
www.nytimes.com - Check out all points of view on the opinion pages.
www.Moveon.org - Information on the peace movement
www.truthout.org -Daily digest of critical news analysis
www.choices.edu – One of the most popular Iraq-related curriculums
www.aclu.org - The American Civil Liberties Union, “defending the Bill of Rights”
www.facinghistory.org - Facing History and Ourselves – many resources for teachers
www.tjcenter.org -Thomas Jefferson Center for Protection of Free Expression
www.eff.org/privacy - Electronic Frontier Foundation. Obtain document – USA PATRIOT Act which greatly expands government surveillance powers
www.ala.org - Resolution on USA PATRIOT ACT - a “present danger to the constitutional rights and privacy rights of library users”
www.nccev.org - National Center for Children Exposed to Violence, Yale University. A Teachers Guide for Talking to Your Students
VIDEOTAPES, CDs and MOVIES
Freedom: A History of US videotapes and DVDs, available from PBS VIDEO: 1-800-344-3337, or http://teacher.shop.pbs.org/
Freedom: A History of US CD available from Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings
Glory, About the Civil War African American regiment
Amistad, About the mutiny of the slaves taken from Africa
BOOKS
Freedom, A History of US, by Joy Hakim. Oxford Press, 2003
The Greatest Sedition is Silence, Pluto Press by William Rivers Pitt, best-selling author and H.S. teacher in Boston.
A People’s History of the U.S. by Howard Zinn
Educational Materials Prepared by Janet Luongo, Educational Consultant
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