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.
- 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
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
- 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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