http://www.bbc.co.uk/musictv/detroit/ - The documentary is available on youtube searching the title. It connects how the music industry in Detroit was a vehicle for social critique. For teachers and for students, but watch the language.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQuUD6tC2H8 – YouTube link to
Motor City's Burning
documentary. A list of the music is listed in the comments section. Student friendly, but screen first for some parts that may be inappropriate for a classroom.
http://www.facinghistory.org/teachingstrategies - Facing History and Ourselves website has many student-centered teaching strategies found here. Excellent source for improving pedagogy activities in the classroom.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/opinion/27Sugrue.html?hp – Opinion editorial from Thomas Sugrue 3/27/2011 about Detroit's blight in 2011
http://www.67riots.rutgers.edu/d_index.htm – Website with information about the Detroit riots along with first-hand account interviews with people involved in the events in Detroit 1967.
http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_06-godeeper.htm - This site provides curriculum connected with the PBS series "Eyes on the Prize" and has excellent casual materials about how communities of individuals are affected by racializing housing and jobs.
http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/strands - National Council for the Social Studies National Standards.