Pathfinder on the 1950s
(with a light focus on A Raisin in the Sun)

In our print collection

• Do a subject search using the on-line catalog. Type the following: 1950s (Of course!) You’ll find lots of books in our collection! Click here to see some book titles from our print collection.
  
• For Mr. Helgeson's A Raisin in the Sun lesson unit:
  • Conduct a subject search on the online catalog under African Americans. Be watchful for subdivisions (i.e. African Americans--Civil Rights--History) that relate to the group's assigned topic.
  • Consider using the African American Encyclopedia.
    
• Check the American Heritage collection for articles on 1950s and topics that relate to your assignment.

• Check the general encyclopedias (i.e. World Book, Encyclopedia Americana, Compton’s, and others) by first using the index (usually found in the last volume).

Using the online information databases

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On the Free Internet:

The 1950s

20th Century History by the Decades (Chico High School) http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/decsg.html

History Channel: This Day in History http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/index.html

History Central: Major Events of the 20th Century (for national and international news!) http://www.historycentral.com/20th/index.html

American Photography: A Century of Images http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/

Time Warp (Archive of Vintage Technology through the Decades) http://www.time-warp.org/

Fifties Web http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fifties.htm

Information Please Day in History http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/dayinhistory/

Some websites related to A Raisin in the Sun

View starting dialogue for each section from A Raisin in the Sun to help identify location of a particular passage.

Perspectives in American Literature http://www.csustan.edu/english/Reuben/pal/Chap8/hansberry.html

Chronology of Lorraine Hansberry http://www.chipublib.org/003cpl/oboc/raisin/chron.html

A Few Additional Helpful Websites:

• African American Odyssey http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 –“… text of the entire act prohibiting discrimination in voter registration requirements, public accommodation and facilities, and employment.”
• Civil Rights Era from the Library of Congress
• Civil Rights Movement from Eastern Connecticut State University
• Civil Rights Movement from the American Library Association
• Civil Rights Movement ‘60s from the University of Virginia
• Civil Rights Movement from CNN
• Pictures of Civil Rights from Kodak