The African American Migration Experience
http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm

African-American migration during the early 20^th century

http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0700/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0700/stories/0701_0131.html

African American Mosaic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations
The University of Minnesota's links to Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Aztec civilizations.
 

Becoming American: The Chinese Experience. Bill Moyers
http://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/

The California Gold Rush and Chinese, Latino and African American (i)migrants
http://museumca.org/goldrush/path.html

   Civil Rights Suite: Exploring the history of Chinese Americans. Topics include “Remember 1882”
http://www.civilrightssuite.org/crs/

Coalition for Asian-American Children & Families (CAC&F)
Articles about  Asian American Children, plus links to the Directory for Asian American Children and Families, and Asian KidsLink - an interactive forum for Asian children's policy and cultural diversity.

        Discussing social issues and immigration each decade in the 19^th century in America
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/19thcentury.html

     European immigration: useful statistics v
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAimmigration.htm

Federal Immigration Laws
An overview of the legislative history of immigration to the United States.

Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)  
Explores the factors contributing to the large and rapidly growing immigrant stock in the United States and the resultant effect on population growth.

         Historical Census Browser



History of Cuba
Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Cuba on October 28, 1942 . . .

            Immigration: the Japanese
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Japanese.html

             Immigration Statistics R We
http://www.shmoop.com/ellis-island-immigration/statistics.html

             Lakota and Dakota Sioux Fact Sheet
http://www.bigorrin.org/sioux_kids.htm

New York City Primary Sources - Accounts of immigrants’ lives in NYC
http://www.ipl.org/div/pfarch/entry/81360

     Overview of immigration to the United States from Librarians’ Internet Index
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48539

Palestinian Bride
From the PBS program, Meet the New Americans
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/newamericans/palestinian_intro.html

Palestinian Americans
http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Pa-Sp/Palestinian-Americans.html

Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820—1910
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umhome.html

      Scholastic's Immigration Site

       Sioux Indians, from the Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14017a.htm

Sioux Indian Family History
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/siouan/siouanfamilyhist.htm

Today-Immigration equity is the law
http://www.immigrationequality.org/

Tips:

If you access Google,  use Advanced Search. Place your terms, e.g. Dakota Indians, in the space for  “this exact wording or phrase:” Then, "migration"

Also, for current information, remember to use Google News.

If you plan use Wikipedia,  you’ll need much more time than if you hadn’t,  in order to check the facts. Beware: your teacher knows more about the immigration stories for these groups than virtually any Wikipedia contributor.

For selected web sites, GO TO:

• the Social Studies web site
• Curriculum Links on the library web site
• Destiny. Select Web Path Express on the left. B-I-N-G-O. 10,000 selected web sites

The books on immigration are on Reserve. They cannot be checked out.

Please do check out a video on your group. They may be taken overnight and are due back in the library before first period the next day.

Refer to the Bibliography assessment rubric on the library web site.

For current information use  EBSCO or Newsbank.

You will find information on successful leaders from your country in some of the books. See also  CultureGrams and ABC CLIO, American History, both easily accessible from the library web page.