History by Design: Leaders Who Overcame Adversity

New-York Historical Society

• Find resources, activities, and discussion questions on Women & The American Story including resources on Anna Mae Wong. 
• An online exhibition on Alexander Hamilton.

The Jackie Robinson Museum

• Learn more about the legend through watching clips from "42," a read aloud of a book on his life, engaging in trivia, and sifting through research resources that can be added directly to your Google Classroom. 

• Biographies and autobiographies
• Archival footage
• Newspaper Articles
• Photographs
• History books/websites
• Look for information about the individual as well as the larger movement or context they immerged from. 

• Marginalized identities such as women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and LGBTQ individuals in:
  • politics
  • STEM fields
  • top positions of power in private sector companies and industries
• Marginalized identities such as women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and LGBTQ people in STEM fields
• Marginalized identities such as women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and LGBTQ people holding the top positions of power within companies
• Leaders from humble beginnings
• Leaders with disabilities
• Leaders of social justice movements such as the Civil Rights Movement
• Native American leaders and the struggle for land rights
• Immigrant leaders
• Labor rights activists
• Some specific examples of leaders who overcame adversity:
  • Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Sonia Sotomayor
  • Ceasar Chavez
  • Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and Fannie Lou Hammer
  • Soujorner Truth
  • Shirley Chisholm
  • Jim Thorpe
  • Billie Jean King and Arthur Ashe
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Marie Curie
  • Carly Fiorina 
  • Sirimavo Bandaranaike
  • Albert Einstein
  • Franklin Roosevelt
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Temple Grandin
  • Anna Mae Wong
  • Mahatma Ghandi
  • Marsha P. Johnson

National Archives: March on Washington

The Stonewall Inn

Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

• Go on the Double Victory: Black Americans in World War II trip to learn more about the lives of black sailors serving on The Intrepid. Looking at primary sources from the Museum's collection and personal accounts from underrepresented sailors who lived and fought on Intrepid, you will explore themes of segregation, discrimination and brave activism in creating historical change.
  • How do I sign up? Email schoolprograms@intrepidmuseum.org. In the email Subject line make sure to put “History By Design Virtual Program." In your email indicate two dates and times that your group is available for a program. Please make sure to cc clewkow@schools.nyc.gov. This will let the scheduler know all financial paperwork should go to the program manager, not the school. 
    • Post-trip: Want to learn more about the black sailors serving in Gun Tub 10? Check out this blog post and this short video. 

The Jackie Robinson Museum

• Go on the Speak Out! virtual field trip to explore Jack Roosevelt Robinson’s legacy of fighting for equality, both on and off the baseball field. Through discussion, videos, and objects, participants will learn how Robinson showed great courage by standing up to unfairness and injustice throughout his life. 
  • How do I sign up? Fill out this form and someone from the Museum will be in touch. 

The Paley Center for Media

• Go on the Get Up! Stand Up! The Civil Rights Movement and Television virtual field trip to learn more about some of the tactics civil rights activists used as part of a larger nonviolent strategy to affect social change, and at the same time think about the role television journalists played as participants and observers in the movement. 
  • How do I sign up? Email eduny@paleycenter.org with your name, school name and address, virtual field trip name, date and time preference for trip, the number of students, grade level and any tech limitations/preferences (E.g. does Zoom work or is there a different platform you prefer?)
• Go on the Media, Activism, and Social Change virtual field trip to learn more about the role media has played as participant and observer in social movements from the civil rights movement and women’s liberation, to #metoo, Black Lives Matter, immigration policy, and LBGTQ rights. 
  • How do I sign up? Email eduny@paleycenter.org with your name, school name and address, virtual field trip name, date and time preference for trip, the number of students, grade level and any tech limitations/preferences (E.g. does Zoom work or is there a different platform you prefer?)