The Civil Rights Movement

22 January 2013 This lesson is part of The Role of Gay Men and Lesbians in the Civil Rights Movement series. This series introduces ...

11 January 2013 This lesson is part of The Role of Gay Men and Lesbians in the Civil Rights Movement series. This series ...

2 January 2013 Many accounts about the civil rights movement discuss class and gender tension within the African-American Freedom Struggle. However, the issue of sexuality, and the ...

7 January 2013 This lesson is part of  The Role of Gay Men and Lesbians in the Civil Rights Movement  series. ...

7 January 2013 This lesson is part of The Role of Gay Men and Lesbians in the Civil Rights Movement series.  ...

This lesson is part of The Little Rock Battle for School Integration series, which introduces students to the actors and events central to the 1957 Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis. ...

This lesson is part of The Little Rock Battle for School Integration series. The series introduces students to the actors and events central the 1957 Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis.  ...

This lesson—the first in The Little Rock Battle for School Integration series—introduces students to important actors and events in the 1957 Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis. ...

Most textbook accounts of the 1950s and 1960s civil rights movement focus on the actions of Martin Luther King Jr. and epic events in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. However, before Birmingham, Freedom ...

This lesson is the fourth in the “ Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice ” series that introduces students to African American civil rights activists who may be unfamiliar ...

This lesson is part of a series called “ Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice. ”  The series introduces students to African-American civil rights activists who may be ...

This lesson is part of a series called “Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice.” The series introduces students to African-American civil rights activists who may be ...

Most history textbooks include a section about Rosa Parks in the chapter on the modern civil rights movement. Students are familiar with her story: Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give up her seat ...

This lesson is the first in the “Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice” series that introduces students to African-American civil rights activists who may be unfamiliar to ...

This activity is designed for use with our free curriculum kit, Mighty Times: The Children's March , designed for the middle and upper grades. Question and answer activity ...

This activity is designed for use with our free curriculum kit, Mighty Times: The Children's March , designed for the middle and upper grades. Question and answer activity ...

This activity is designed for use with our free curriculum kit, Mighty Times: The Children's March , designed for the middle and upper grades. Question and answer activity ...

This activity is designed for use with our free curriculum kit, Mighty Times: The Children's March , designed for the middle and upper grades. Question and answer activity ...

This activity is designed for use with our free curriculum kit, Mighty Times: The Children's March , designed for the middle and upper grades. Question and answer activity ...

This activity is designed for use with our free curriculum kit, Mighty Times: The Children's March , designed for the middle and upper grades. Question and answer activity ...

This lesson is the third in a series called Expanding Voting Rights . The overall goal of the series is for students to explore the complicated history of voting rights in this country. Two characteristics ...

In this lesson students learn about the Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th and 15th) that abolished slavery, guaranteed African American citizenship and secured men the right to vote. ...

In this lesson, students will use a primary source—an NBC news report from 1961—to investigate the Freedom Rides. The lesson will also explore segregation in the South and the tenets of nonviolent protest.  ...

This activity asks students to read and compare the language of selected Civil Rights legislation. Objectives Understand how a democratic society debates issues and ...

In this lesson, students will study Morgan’s speech to better understand the civil rights movement and the value of speaking out against injustice. On Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, four ...

We developed a unit based on common children’s  books on the Underground Railroad and the Civil Rights Movement. For each book we created a vocabulary list, active learning options ...

On November 5, 1989, thousands of people gathered in Montgomery, Ala., to witness the dedication of the Civil Rights Memorial. It is a granite monument inscribed with the names of 40 martyrs who gave their ...

Little Rock isn't the only city or town with a civil rights history. The Civil Rights Movement and other struggles for justice have impacted every community in the United ...

Activity Ideas :: Primary Documents (Grades 4-7): President Eisenhower waited nearly a month before sending federal troops to protect the Little Rock Nine. The President's ...

Activity Ideas :: A World Apart (Grades 3-7) In her interview, Beverly Daniel Tatum says: "Many social organizations that were once all white are now 'integrated.' ...