15th Amendment

Extending Voting Rights Learning

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Today is National Carrot Cake Day, National Girls & Women in Sports Day, and The Day The Music Died.

* indicates a resource or program highlighting Black history, culture, or an individual.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: 15th Amendment
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ON THIS DATE

• 1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race. *
• 1913 - The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to collect an income tax.
• 1917 - The US breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany after it announces a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 1959 - Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa in what became known as .'The Day the Music Died."

BIRTHDAYS

• 1809 - German composer and pianist Felix Mendelssohn
• 1811 - Journalist Horace Greeley
• 1821 - Physician Elizabeth Blackwell
• 1874 - Writer Gertrude Stein
• 1894 - Artist Norman Rockwell
• 1898 - Finnish architect Alvar Aalto
• 1907 - Novelist James Michener 
• 1952 - Red Sox center fielder Fred Lynn
• 1956 - Actor Nathan Lane
• 1969 - Politician Beau Biden

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Don McLean - American Pie - LISTEN
Buddy Holly  - Peggy Sue - LISTEN
Ritchie Valens - La Bamba - LISTEN
Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace - LISTEN
Felix Mendelssohn - Wedding March - LISTEN

THEME: 15th Amendment *

• Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Carrie Chapman Catt - The 15th Amendment Challenges the Women’s Movement - VIEW AND DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - National Archives - 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870) and Resource Materials - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - National Archives - Our Documents - 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870) - READ and VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - American Experience - Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment - READ
• Grades 7-12 - National Park Service -  Suffrage in America: The 15th and 19th Amendments - READ
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia  - Reconstruction: The 15th Amendment and African American Men in Congress - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: 1870 Fifteenth Amendment Celebration Print - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - Library of Congress - 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Primary Documents in American History - READ
• Grades 7-12 - Library of Congress - Voting Rights for African Americans Lesson Plan - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia -The Reconstruction Amendments Interactive Lesson - VIEW, READ, DO

Watch 

• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Amazon: Rivers of Life
• 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Nova - Mysteries Of Sleep
• 2-2:30 pm NH WORLD - SciGirls - Insulation Station
• 2:30-3 pm NH WORLD - Project Asteroid: Mapping Bennu
• 3-4 pm NH WORLD - Africa's Great Civilizations - Empires Of Gold *
• 4-5 pn NH WORLD - Africa's Great Civilizations - Cities *
• 7-8:30 pm NH WORLD - Independent Lens - 9to5: The Story Of A Movement
• 8-9 pm NHPBS - Nature - Pumas: Legends Of The Ice Mountains
• 8:30-10 pm NHPBS - Frontline - China's Covid Secrets
• 9-10 pm NHPBS - Beyond The Elements On Nova - Reactions
• 10-11 pm NHPBS - Europe's New Wild

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