The population of the United States is comprised
of an increasingly diverse complex of cultures.
In 1990 the US. population was 76% Anglo,
12% Black, 9% Latino, and 3% Asian. By the year
2050, these percentages are projected to be:
52% Anglo, 16% Black, 22% Latino, and 10%
Asian. We cannot identify one distinctive
"American culture." We have
a constantly changing, inclusive
multi-culture that encompasses a diverse
population related to all of the peoples and
nations on the planet.
Despite the inclusion of a "Bill of
Rights" in our Constitution, the people
living in the United States have had to
struggle with many controversial issues
involved in sharing space and power. Persistent
conflicts among groups in the United
States have been associated with prejudice,
exclusion, and discrimination as this country
developed. Laws insuring the rights
of diverse groups needing legal protection
were passed only relatively recently, for
example, civil rights (1957),
desegregation of schools (1954), bilingual
education (1968) and guaranteed equal access for
the disabled (1975). Moreover, racist
violence and abuse of human rights continue
to be problems in all areas of the country today,
threatening everyone's chance to live
a fulfilling life. Learning to get along
with persons of diverse backgrounds, needs and
expectations requires commitment and effort
on the part of all of us.
From
Multicultural Teaching, by Pamela L. Tiedt and
Iris M. Tiedt
The
following links are listed as resources in the
battle to replace ignorance, prejudice and
discrimination with knowledge, respect and
acceptance.
Freedom of Speech, Freedom of
Religion:
People for the American Way
URL: http://www.pfaw.org/
Anti-Defamation League
URL: http://www.adl.org/
The
Freedom Forum
URL: http://www.freedomforum.org/
Multicultural Histories:
Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance
Learning Center
A comprehensive resource on the Holocaust and
World War II.
URL: http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/
Our Shared History: Celebrating African
American History & Culture
Journey to the Historic Places of the Civil
Rights Movement.
URL: http://www.cr.nps.gov/aahistory/
DuSable Museum of African American
History
America's foremost museum of African American
history. Founded in 1957 by Dr. Margaret T. and
Charles G. Burroughs on the south side of
Chicago.
URL: http://www.dusablemuseum.org/
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies
As a University-wide Center for Latin American
Studies at Harvard University
URL: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~drclas/
UFW: The Official Web Page of the United Farm
Workers of America
URL: http://www.ufw.org/
Mexican Embassy, Mexican History &
Culture
URL: http://www.mexican-embassy.dk/history.html
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
A collection of finding aids, digital images, and
electronic texts from the holdings of a number of
California repositories. It includes
photographs, documents, manuscripts, paintings,
drawings, letters, and oral histories.
URL: http://jarda.cdlib.org/
Eastern Delaware Tribe
URL: http://www.delawaretribeofindians.nsn.us/
American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee
URL: http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=119
Human Rights:
Human Rights Watch
URL: http://www.hrw.org
Amnesty International
URL: http://www.amnestyusa.org/
Tolerance
URL: http://www.tolerance.org
Sierra Club
Human Rights & the Environment
URL: http://www.sierraclub.org/human-rights/campaign.asp
Feminist Majority Foundation
URL: http://www.feminist.org/
National Organization for Women
URL: http://www.now.org
Women's Rights - Muslim
URL: http://www.mwlusa.org/
UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
UNICEF, The United Nations Children's Fund, works
for children's rights, their survival,
development and protection.
URL: http://www.unicef.org/
Human Rights Campaign
URL: http://www.hrc.org/
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
URL: http://www.ngltf.org/
PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and
Gays)
URL: http://www.pflag.org/
Jews
for Racial and Economic Justice
URL: http://www.jfrej.org/
Rabbis
for Human Rights
URL: http://www.rhr.israel.net
Peace:
Hague Peace Organization
URL: http://www.haguepeace.org/
Abolish Nuclear Arms
URL: http://www.abolition2000.org/
The Non-Violence Web
URL: http://www.nonviolence.org/
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