Esperanza Rising Links

Find out about Mexico from Time For Kids:
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/goplaces/main/0,18606,591663,00.html

Meet Mexico, an educational site from the Mexican Embassy:
http://www.demon.co.uk/mexuk/meet_mex/

The Mexican Revolution, timeline and presidents:
http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/interactive-timeline.html

Read each of the four sections on the Mexican Revolution beginning with  the background page:
http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/kids/history/html/rev/home.html

Mexican Revolution from Mexico Online:
http://www.mexonline.com/revolution.htm

Brief history of the Mexican Revolution:
http://www.mexconnect.com/MEX/austin/revolution.html

Read about Porfirio Diaz whose presidency led to the revolution:
http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/kids/history/html/sxix/home.html

Biography of Pancho Villa:
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/history/panchovilla1.html

The Great Depression

Art and Artists during the Great Depression:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/new_deal_for_the_arts/activist_arts1.html

Dear Mrs. Roosevelt site  with letters written to Mrs. R. by children of the depression:
http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/index.htm

About Eleanor Roosevelt, a short biography:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/ar32.html

Great Depression Photos:
http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm

Link to photos of The Great Depression:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

Research Depression photos from American Memory Archives:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

Background Information, FDR and WWII
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/1929-1945

Songs of the Great Depression:
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/cherries.html

Migrant Camps

Valley Fever Information:
http://vfce.arl.arizona.edu/

Specific information and photos on Arvin Camp from Okie point of view:
http://www.weedpatchcamp.com/

Photo of mother and child in tent, 1937:
http://www.ou.edu/special/albertctr/archives/dougp3.htm

Photos of the camps:
http://www.cyesis.org/webinstruction/grapesofwrath/pictures2.htm

The United Farmworkers Union (UFW) and Its Leaders

PBS link to Cesar Chavez and UFW:
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fightfields/

Meet Amazing Americans site on Cesar Chavez:
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/chavez

The farmworkers website:
http://www.farmworkers.org/Welcome.html

Wayne State University site with extensive info on Chavez and UFW history:
http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/ufw.html

Viva Cesar Chavez Page from San Francisco State:
http://www.sfsu.edu/%7Ececipp/cesar_chavez/chavezhome.htm

California State Department of Education comprehensive site on Chavez:
http://chavez.cde.ca.gov/ModelCurriculum/Intro.aspx

Short Biography of Cesar Chavez:
http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Chavez.html

Student created site on Cesar Chavez:
http://serra.sandi.net/student_life/Student_Work/BusinessTechnology/jessicasproject/home.htm

Quotes from Cesar Chavez:
http://clnet.sscnet.ucla.edu/research/chavez/quotes/

Biography of Dolores Huerta:
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=81

United Farm Workers biography of Dolores Huerta:
http://www.ufw.org/dh.htm

New KPBS series on the border with timeline and morphing map:
http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/interactive-timeline.html

The Phoenix In Mythology

Myth of the Phoenix from a variety of cultures:
http://www.phoenixmoon.org/thephoenix.html
http://www.avians.net/paragon/fenghuang.htm
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monsters/Html/Phoenix.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0838843.html

Proverbs

Spanish proverbs (Spanish and English):
http://spanish.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://members.aol.com/spanishpronto/spanishsayings.html
http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/Discourse/Proverbs/English-Spanish.html
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Discourse/Proverbs/Spanish.html
http://www.lingolex.com/refranes.htm
International Proverbs:
http://creativeproverbs.com/cp-index.htm