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=Personal Research Template= (i.e., text, graphic, sound, video) || **Brief Summary / Description of Resource** || Source #1 || "Fences" August Willson || text || ====This website gives a brief summery of the play. It also tells when the play was written. It explains who the characters are. it also explains the setting and why it is important. it gives us links to more information about the play.==== || Source #1 || August Wilson || text || ====This site is good because it gives his background infromation. It gives some information about who he is. It also tells about what he has achieved He won a pulitzer prize for Fences and the Piano Lesson.==== || Source #1 || 1950 - First Peanuts Cartoon Strip || text || ====The first //Peanuts// comic strip, was written by Charles M. Schulz. It appeared in seven newspapers on October 2, 1950.====
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 * Period 1950-1959**

Most of the other characters that eventually became the main characters of //Peanuts// Schroeder, Lucy ,Linus, Pigpen , Sally , “Peppermint” Patty , Woodstock, Marcie, and Franklin, came later on.
|| Source #1 || ** Civil Rights for Minorities ** || text || ====This site tells how african americans were treated differently ,after and during WWII. They did not have full rights,but they were expanded. So they were treated a little better than before. There was still some seggragation but not as bad.==== || Source #1 || negro league history 101 || text || ====The site tells about Jackie Robinson, and how he broke the baseball color barrier. He was the first African American person to play major league baseball for, the Dodgers. He changed the rights foe all African Americans to play major league baseball.==== || Source #1 || Disadvantages of Black Americans in 1950's || text || ====This site tells about how black Americans had to face many disadvantages. They were discriminated from a lot of public services, like restaurants. They were not able to get some of the same jobs as white people. After 1865, there were no more salves.==== || Source #1 || Harlem Renaissance Poetry || text || ====The Harlem Renaissance is a period in American history where the influence of African-Americans in politics, writing, music, culture and society grew and became a part of the american life. It started in the early 1900s when African Americans moved to harlem from "Black Bohemia."==== || Source #1 || Music Played in the 1950's played in the 1950's || text || ==== The music of the 1950s flourished as a result of the previous decade. The 50s saw the emergence and rise of what would come to be known as Rock ‘n Roll, but it was also witnessed the popularity of Country and Western music in a variety of forms. Musicians like Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Hank Williams helped to redefine the entertainment industry with the types of music that they created during this time period. ==== ||
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 * **Poetry of the**
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 * **The Blues (music)**
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