• Great Sites for Teaching about Heroes
  

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady (wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt), active in many social causes, U.S. Delegate to the United Nations; (Nobel 1931), born (1884)

• Women of Accomplishment: An Internet Scavenger Hunt
  Neglected for years, the historical contributions of women are celebrated during March, the official National Women's History Month.
• March Into Women's History Month!
  Planning a March project to celebrate Women's History Month? Join us as we explore some of the best Web sites for and about women.

Astronaut Kathy Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space (1984)

• Space Sciences
  Resources and tools from our Science Center.
• The Space Place
  This site is filled with projects and activities related to current space missions and information.

Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer, died at the age of seventy (1965)

Brigadier General Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by the British (1776)

• Join the Revolution!
  Follow the progress of the American Revolution War from the first battle to the last.

San Francisco ordered Oriental children segregated in schools until pressured by President Roosevelt to rescind (1906)

• States Step Up Efforts to Reduce School Segregation
  In response to a state Supreme Court ruling that children in Hartford’s urban schools were receiving an inferior and unequal education, Connecticut stepped up efforts to improve the education of urban schools.

Ralph J. Bunche, first black U.S. diplomat (Nobel 1950), died at 67 (1971)

• Ten Activities Celebrate Achievements of African Americans!

Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing the CAT scan (1979)

NAACP organized the Legal Defense & Education Fund (1939)

• Civil Rights Movement