Social Studies-Grade 4 

Civil Rights Movement

• Martin Luther King
• Voices of Civil Rights Bus Tour:  The Spirit of the Freedom Singers

Immigration

• Lower East Side Tenement Museum
• School:  The Story of American Public Education
• Electronic Ellis Island :  A Virtual Heritage Museum
• Immigration: Ellis Island
• Immigration:  Coming to America - check out Scholastic's site about immigration.
• America, Here I Come - Check out the History Channel's tour of Ellis Island.
• Ellis Island - More information from the History Channel.
• Ellis Island Immigration Museum
• Ellis Island - Read what Grolier's has to say about it.
• Pictures of European Immigrants
• Ellis Island Immigrant Pictures
• Immigration Pictures
• Turn of the Century America - A few pictures to look at.

The 20's, 30's and 40's

• Facts about the Empire State Building
• The Automobile Age
• The 1920's Experience
• Charles Lindbergh
• Charles Lindbergh

• Radio Entertains America

• George Gershwin
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
• The New York World's Fair
• The 1939-40 New York World's Fair

• Joe Louis, African American Hero

• Pearl Harbor

• President Harry S. Truman
• Norman Rockwell

• Helen Keller
• The Big Band Sound

Slavery

The Underground Railroad - A presentation by National Geographic.

Slavery in America - An overview and exploration of how slaves escaped and transitioned to freedom.

Last Updated: Monday, August 27, 2007 22:20:03 -0400