Today’s Document from the National Archives- A Flower for the MPs October 21, 2021A quintessential image of the Vietnam war era, this photograph was taken on October 21, 1967 by Staff Sergeant Albert Simpson. The caption reads: "A female demonstrator offers a flower to military police on guard at the Pentagon during an anti-Vietnam demonstration." More photographs of the Vietnam War Era...
- A Flower for the MPs October 21, 2021
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Videos for the Classroom: African American Training During WWII
Recently, the good folks at the Social Studies and History Teachers blog presented a great video from the Office of War Information about the war effort in black colleges during World War II. I posted the video, along with a video of a Bugs Bunny cartoon advertising war bonds. The juxtaposition between an “official” view of blacks in the war effort and the blatent racist stereotypes in the cartoon is too juicy to resist–especially for students.
Let me know how they work in your classroom.
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