Desegregation - June 11

Saturday, June 11, 2022

Today is National German Chocolate Cake Day and Corn on the Cob Day.

June is Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month; National Oceans Month; National Rivers Month; and National Caribbean-American Heritage Month

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Ocean/River Resource of the Day
Today's Theme:  Desegregation

ON THIS DATE

• 1184 BC - Troy is sacked and burned during the Trojan War.
• 1776 - The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence. 
• 1837 - The Broad Street Riot breaks out in Boston.
• 1919 - Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes and becomes the first horse to win the Triple Crown.
• 1963 - Alabama governor. George Wallace, confronts federal troops in an effort to block a court-ordered directive to allow black students to attend the University of Alabama.
• 1970 - Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington become the first female U.S. Army Generals.
• 2009 - The World Health Organization declares the swine flu a pandemic. 

BIRTHDAYS

• 1572 - English poet and playwright Ben Jonson
• 1776 - English painter John Constable
• 1815 - British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron
• 1864 - German composer Richard Strauss
• 1880 - Jeannette Rankin, the first female member of Congress.
• 1910 - French biologist and inventor Jacques Cousteau
• 1913 - Football coach Vince Lombardi
• 1933 - Actor Gene Wilder
• 1969 - Actor Peter Dinklage
• 1986 - Actor Shia LaBeouf

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Egg from 1776 - LISTEN
• Berliner Philharmonika - Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 Opening by Richard Struass - LISTEN

OCEAN/RIVER RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Blank on Blank - Jacques Cousteau on Atlantis and Cognac  - VIEW

THEME: DESEGREGATION

• Grades K-8 - Scholastic - Ruby Bridges: A Simple Act of Courage Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources -  DO
• Grades K-8 - Brainpop - Educator Resources for Ruby Bridges - DO
  
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Alexander Clark and the First Successful Desegregation Case in the United States  (2;37) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Mendez v. Westminster: Desegregating California's Schools (8:37) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 5-9 - National Council of Teachers of English - ReadWriteThink - Exploring Perspectives Desegregation Using "Brown Girl Dreaming" - Lesson Plan - DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Civil Rights Movement - Educational Equality (6:47) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Freedom Riders: Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation (4:03) - VIEW, READ, and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Boston TV News - Boston Desegregation Controversy, 1974 (5:56) - VIEW, READ, DO
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - BostonTV News - Boston Desegregation Four Years Later, 1978 (5:30) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - Urban-Suburban School Desegregation Program Seen as Model (11:14) - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Marching Forward Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - The Desegregation of Huntsville (9:24) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Black in America - 1974 Boston and School Desegregation (2:21) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - The African Americans - Ruby Bridges Desegregates a School (3:00) - VIEW
  
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - History Detectives - Desegregating the Lunch Counter (6:07) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Chicago Tonight - Activist Ruby Bridges on Racism in America Today (11:50) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - PBS NewsHour - Civil Rights Pioneer Ruby Bridges on Race in America (7:54) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - Boston Desegregation (3:33) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 9-12- NHPBS Learning Media - Austin Revealed: Chicano Civil Rights - Desegregation (5:01) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12- NHPBS Video - Dynamics of Desegregation 1962-63 Series - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Eyes on the Prize - Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) - VIEW (56:14)

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339