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Rita Hennessey

On This Day: Freedom Ride Protests Provoke Violent Backlash - 0 views

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    "On This Day: Freedom Ride Protests Provoke Violent Backlash May 21, 2010 08:00 AM by Shannon Firth On May 21, 1961, an interracial protest against segregration, the Freedom Ride, incited violent mobs and roused a sleepy government into action."
Rita Hennessey

On This Day: Selma-to-Montgomery March Begins - 0 views

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    "On March 21, 1965, 3,200 civil rights demonstrators began a march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery to protest discriminatory voting laws. The march came to weeks after "Bloody Sunday," when peaceful marchers in Selma were attacked by state and local police."
deb perry

Home - International Day of Peace - 0 views

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    Sept 21, 2009
Rita Hennessey

Over 25 Links Uncovering Project Based Learning Resources On The Web | 21 st Century Ed... - 1 views

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    "Welcome to this first in a series of PBL Mania Posts. For the next few weeks I am celebrating Project Based Learning by hosting a webinar at Edtech Leaders Online, and by presenting a PBL session at the NICE Conference in Chicago. In this post I will introduce you to some awesome places on the web containing some of the very best PBL resources. Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe to this 21centuryedtech Blog by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. "
Rita Hennessey

WWII: How Detroit Won The War - Photo Gallery, 21 Pictures - LIFE - 0 views

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    "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wasn't the first to call America-and Detroit, specifically-"The Arsenal of Democracy," but he popularized the phrase during his famous "fireside chats." And for once, political rhetoric didn't outstrip reality: During the 1940s, Detroit's factories went from manufacturing cars to building tanks, bombers, army trucks, ordnance-in short, arming U.S. forces for battle in World War II."
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