Digging Deeper – Part
Four – American topics
(pp. 423)
4) Black American Music
Black Music America
http://blackmusicamerica.com/
Influence of black music on white America
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n10_v46/ai_11098734
African American Music
http://afgen.com/music.html
Celebrating Black Music Month
http://nmaahc.si.edu/Blog/blackmusicmonth
The Harlem Renaissance
http://42explore2.com/harlem.htm
The Impact of the Music of the Harlem Renaissance on Society
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1989/1/89.01.05.x.html
5) Segregation
Segregation
http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/brown_v_board/segregation.htm
Creation of the Jim Crow South
http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/segregation/Segregation_and_the_Jim_Crow_Era.htm
USA History: Civil Rights 1860-1980
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilrights.htm
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
Remembering Jim Crow
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/
6) Trayvon Martin
The shooting and trail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin
Immediate reactions
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/15/trayvon-martin-protests_n_3593469.html
Memorials
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/trayvon-martin-group-walking-jacksonville-central/nY4JD/
http://www.forevermissed.com/trayvon-martin/#about
In 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/world/trayvon-martin
7) Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Committee's presentation speech
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/press.html
The Nobel Committee's King biography
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
Martin Luther King's acceptance speech
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-acceptance.html
King's Nobel lecture
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-lecture.html
Martin Luther King, Jr
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/
Award to King stirred a storm
http://www.newsbankschools.com/schools/pdf/mlkpeace.pdf
The reaction to a previous Peace Prize winner
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/161404.php
Reasons for awarding Obama the prize
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/press.html
Praise and skepticism greet Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/09/obama.nobel.international.reaction/
Obama administration rebuked Norway
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/obama-nobel-peace-prize-norwayrebuke-war