15th Amendment - February 3

Saturday, February 3, 2024 

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
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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

WATCH

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Jesse Owens
Saturday, 2/3 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
The most famous athlete of his time, his stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace and athleticism rallied crowds across the globe. But when the four-time Olympic gold medalist returned home, he could not even ride in the front of a bus. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

UNFORGIVABLE BLACKNESS: THE RISE AND FALL OF JACK JOHNSON Part One
Saturday, 2/3 from 3-5 pm NH WORLD
This film by Ken Burns chronicles the life and career of boxer Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight champion and one of the greatest fighters of the 20th century. Johnson ultimately lost his title in a bout in Cuba in 1915, after fleeing the United States following his federal conviction for allegedly violating the Mann Act, a progressive-era law intended to crackdown on commercialized vice but used against Johnson to create an example against, to quote the prosecutor, "the evils of miscegenation." UNFORGIVABLE Streaming Video

TE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG - Part One
Saturday, 2/3 from 8-10 pm NH WORLD
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of African American religion beginning with the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the extraordinary ways enslaved Africans preserved and adapted faith practices from the brutality of slavery to emancipation. THE BLACK CHURCH Streaming Video

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