Andrea Alexander

EDT541-401

alexan@wmich.edu

Assignment D2

03/24/05

Underground Railroad

Starting point page

This time in history was an exciting turning point for both the African American people as well as the nation. This was a great example of how people recognized a social injustice, and organized in order to correct the injustice. Instead of the normal state of inaction, this mixed group of white citizens, freed slaves, black citizens, and runaway slaves organized a complex set of checkpoints to transport slaves into northern cities and then eventually to Canada.

1. Title: The Underground Railroad
Author: National Geographic
URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/
 
What an awesome site! This site is completely interactive; it literally takes the student on a journey through the Underground Railroad. It gives the student choices, just as if he were a runaway slave making his way to Canada. For instance, it asks the student to approach the safe house or hide in the woods; the student makes his/her choice and receives immediate feedback in the form of audible songs, sounds, and more!

2. Title: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Author: Gail Hennessey
URL: http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/04-1/lesson005.shtml
 
This site is a great place for the student to start searching for topics on the Underground Railroad, and primarily it maternal steward: Harriet Tubman. It was created by a middle school teacher as a filamentality hunt for her own students. The site offers seven external links for students to use and short bio on Ms. Tubman.

3. Title: With Miles to Go Before I Sleep…Our Journey on the Underground
Railroad
Author: Co-nect Inc.
URL: http://exchange.co-nect.net/Teleprojects/project/?pid=3&session=L9V30TcbnVF&cid=4
 
The site offers students an opportunity to view properties used for the
Underground Railroad. It has an external sites that lets students place
themselves back in the 1830’s, by locating physically locations which actedas stops along the railroad.

4. Title: Underground Railroad – The basics
Author: Ann Lamb and Larry Johnson
URL: http://www.42explore2.com/undergrd.htm
 
In this site a student will find a one-stop shop, filled with every external needed by an interested student. The sited starts of slowly introducing the student to the Underground Railroad by giving him/her the basics then permit the student to explore other sites. At the bottom of the site is an interactive word dictionary which allows the student to click on a word and be directed to a site that defines its meaning.

5. Title: The Fugitive Slave Act and the Underground Railroad
Author: AfricanAmericans.net
URL: http://www.africanamericans.com/UndergroundRailroad1.htm
 
This particular site is introduces the student to the Fugitive Slave Act which
was enacted by Congress in order to punish slaves and the conductors of
the Underground Railroad. It provides a student to the reaction of the
United States Congress to the success of the railroad.
 
The sites listed should provide the student with ample information in which
to analyze the impact of the Underground Railroad and how it set the
foundation for many other organizations to take action in the early stages of
African American civil rights.

6.Title: National Underground Freedom Center
Author: National Underground Freedom Center
http://www.freedomcenter.org/
 
Author: National Underground Freedom Center
A link to a national museum displaying the history of the underground railroad. 
 
 

7.Title: Taking the Train to Freedom: Underground Railroad
Author: National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/undergroundrr/
 
Home page for a national study conducted by the National Parks service detailing the different sites across the national where the underground railroad operated.
 

8. The Underground Railroad in Franklin County
Author: Edward L. Ayers
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/UGRR/underground.html
 
This site offers more of a regionally view of the underground railroad. Franklin County was a crossroads between the south and the north, bordering the Mason-Dixon Line. 
 

9. Kentucky’s Underground Railroad: Passage of to Freedom
Author: Kentucky Education Television
http://www.ket.org/underground/
 
An other website that gives the user a regional insight to the underground railroad. This site explores some the states key players in the railroad and also offers the key players opposing the underground railroad.
 

10. Our Virtual Railroad Quilt
Author: David Leahy
http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ugrr/index.htm
A fun visual website to explore the underground railroad. The site offers drawing from an elementary teacher’s class representing different scenes of the railroad. 

  

  
 
 
The author offer different links for the user to select each represented by a unique drawing.
 

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March 26, 2005