Rosa Parks
Fighting for Equality Learning
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Today is Giving Tuesday, Rosa Parks Day, and World Aids Day.
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ON THIS DATE
- 1824 - The House of Representatives meets to decide the presidential election because no candidate received a majority in the Electoral College.
- 1865 - Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- 1913 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
- 1924 - The NHL's first U.S.-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, play their first game.
- 1955 - In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is arrested when she refuses to give up her seat on a bus seat to a white man.
- 1959 - 12 countries, including the U.S., sign a treaty establishing Antarctica as a scientific preserve, free from military activity.
- 1969 - The U.S. holds its first draft lottery since World War II.
- 1761 - French sculptor Marie Tussaud
- 1940 - Comedian and actor Richard Pryor
- 1945 - Singer and actor Bette Midler
- 1949 - Children's author and illustrator Jan Brett
- 1970 - Actor, comedian, and Bedford, NH native Sarah Silverman
- 1985 - Singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe
- Grades K-3 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum - Rosa Parks - VIEW
- Grades 3-7 - PBS LearningMedia - Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Activist (Available in Spanish) - VIEW, and DO
- Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Rosa Parks Interview - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 5-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott - VIEW and DO
- Grades 5-12 - ReadWriteThink - Rosa Parks Activity - READ and DO
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Montgomery Bus Boycott (full episode)
- VIEW and DO - Grades 8-12 - NHPBS VIdeo - The Origins of Everything - Is the Rosa Parks Story True? - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS VIdeo - They Dared! - Claudette Colvin - VIEW
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- 12-12:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 6 - Write Expressions Where Letters Stand For Numbers
- 12:30-1 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 7 - Multiplying Rational Numbers
- 1-1:30 pm NH WORLD - Illustrative Math - Gr. 8 - Fitting A Line To Data
- 1:30-2 pm NH WORLD -Illustrative Math - Algebra 1 - Solving Quadratic Equations With The Zero Product Property
- 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Nova - The Truth About Fat
- 3-4 pm NH WORLD - African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross - Making A Way Out Of No Way (1897-1940)
- 4-5 pm NH WORLD - Latino Americans - Empire Of Dreams
- 7:30-9:30 pm NHPBS - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Uncovering America
- 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - 100 Years: One Woman's Fight For Justice
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