15th Amendment - February 3

Monday, February 3, 2025 

Today is American Painters Day, Elmo’s Birthday, Barber Day, Feed the Birds Day, Carrot Day, Carrot Cake Day, The Day the Music Died.

Black History Month Resource of the Day: Ida B. Wells

• Ida B. Wells - Pioneer of Civil Rights
• Ida B. Wells - A Lifetiime of Activism
• Ida B. Wells - The Advocate
• National Park Service: Ida B. Wells
• Ida B. Wells Documentary
• Chicago Stories: Ida B. Wells
• Women's History Museum: Ida B. Wells Lesson Plan
• Southern Poverty Law Center: Learning for Justice - Before Rosa Parks: Ida B. Wells Lesson Plan

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

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

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 (2:28) - 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 (7:05) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: 1870 Fifteenth Amendment Celebration Print (0:57) - 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 (1:26) - VIEW, READ, DO

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