UFOs, Thurgood Marshall, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - July 2

Nothing Says Summer Like Learning!

Saturday, July 2, 2022

Today is World UFO Day, Second Half of the Year Day, World Sports Journalists Day, and I Forgot Day.

July is National Parks & Recreation Month and National Ice Cream Month.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: UFOs, Thurgood Marshall, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964

ON THIS DATE

• 1776 - Continental Congress passes a resolution that the colonies  " are and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States."
• 1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean
• 1947 - An unidentified object crashes near Roswell, N.M. 
• 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans segregation in public places.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1877 -  German author Hermann Hesse
• 1908 - Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
• 1925 - Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers
• 1939 - Former NH Governor John H. Sununu
• 1947 - Actor and producer Larry David

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Joni Mitchell - Amelia - LISTEN
• Foo Fighters - My Hero - LISTEN
  
• Creedence Clearwater Revival - It Came Out of the Sky - LISTEN
• Styx - Come Sail Away - LISTEN
• David Bowie - Starman - LISTEN

THEME: UFOs   

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Martian Radio (2:25) -VIEW
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Identifying Flying Objects (9:18) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Why the Latest UFO Report is a Turning Point on the Issue (7:57) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - UFOs Pose a National Security Risk, US Intel Report Says (5:17) - VIEW

THEME: THURGOOD MARSHALL

• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - A More or Less Perfect Union - Brown vs. Board of Education (4:11) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 3-8 - Learning Cartoon Network - Thurgood Marshall (4:00) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience - Simple Justice - Marshall's Closing Statement (5:26) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Thurgood Marshall's Fight for Justice as a Young Lawyer (6:03) - VIEW

THEME: CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964

• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience -1964: "Passage of the Civil Rights Act" (3:22) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - American Experience -1964: "The Importance of the Civil Rights Act" (1:24) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - National Archives - Civil Rights Act (1964) and Resource Materials - READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Project C - The Civil Rights Act (28:47) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Project C - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (2:46) - VIEW and DO

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