Resources
Information Literacy Skills:
Reference sheets and mini-lessons for using resources effectively
Reference sheets and mini-lessons for using resources effectively
General
Women
- History of Women's Rights Movement
- Women's Rights National Historic Park
- One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage
- Women's Rights: 1948 to the Present
- ACLU - Women's RIghts
- Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement
- Legal Momentum
- Women's Suffrage - Winning the Vote
- Women's Civil Rights 101
- Women's Rights History
Immigrants
- Japanese American Internment
- History Now - Immigration
- History of Migration and Immigration Laws of the U.S.
- ACLU - Immigrant Rights
- Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- Immigrant Voting Rights
- The White House on Immigration Reform
- The Immigrant Voting Project
African Americans
- From Slavery to Civil Rights
- Protest and Reform
- Civil Rights Timeline
- Jim Crow History
- African American World
- History of the Civil RIghts Struggle
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Failed Promises of the Civil Rights Movement
- Economists assess Civil RIghts Gains
- Jump, Jim Crow
- African American Odyssey
Native Americans
- Charles Lummis and the Fight for Native American RIghts
- The Trail of Tears
- Civil Rights and Native Americans
- Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
- Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- A History of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
- An Apology
- Religious Freedom and Indian Rights
- Laws of Indian Communities
ELECTRONIC DATABASE
RESOURCES
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Do a keyword search in one of the BCPS/Maryland Digital Library Information Databases (keywords might include, but not be limited to, Declaration of Independence, freedom, government, right to vote, equal rights).
- Type your topic in the search box below:
- Be sure to visit, Brain Pop and view the civil rights, Brown V. B. O. E., Declaration of Independence, and Women's Suffrage videos.
Local Print and Nonprint Resources
Obtain print materials from:
School Library Media Center:
- Do a keyword search in the Destiny Library Catalog to find nonfiction and reference books about your topic. (keywords might include, but not be limited to, Declaration of Independence, freedom, government, right to vote, equal rights) ).
- Use indexes or tables of contents in nonfiction and reference books to locate information related to your topic and questions.
Check the indexes of print and CD ROM encyclopedias for articles about your topic.
Baltimore County Public Library holdings
- Do a keyword search in the BCPL Catalog to locate additional resources. (keywords might include, but not be limited to, Declaration of Independence, freedom, government, right to vote, equal rights)
- Chat online with a real live librarian at Ask Us Now! Be sure to have your research questions handy!
