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Resources for Teaching American History: Civil Rights
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceMultimedia site includes teacher-selected primary sources, a video on Medgar Evers, elementary-school lessons on Rosa Parks and ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
Grades: 4, 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Psychology, Electives, Geography, American DemocracyThis resource, from the National Park Service, offers a virtual tour of historic places related to the modern civil rights movem...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Voices of Civil Rights
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, The Civil Rights Movement, United States HistoryVoices of Civil Rights documents the civil rights movement in the U.S. Nearly 50 photos, posters, and descriptions depict impor...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0The Big Parade: On the Road to Montgomery
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how in 1965 more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrat...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Race to Learn: Exploring the Historical Role of Race in Education
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, American Democracy, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students learn about the history of education and race in the United S...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, U.S. ConstitutionThis lesson, from EDSITEment, focuses on the individual men and women who embraced Martin Luther King, Jr.'s message of nonviole...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Revisiting 'Separate but Equal': Examining School Segregation 45 Years After Brown v. Board of Education
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, American Democracy, United States History, Reading ComprehensionIn this two-day lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students examine the struggle for desegregation during the Civ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Civil Rights Era
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, documents the lives of African Americans during the Civil Rights...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0New Kent School and the George W. Watkins School: From Freedom of Choice to Integration
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, The Civil Rights Movement, United States HistoryNew Kent School and the George W. Watkins School: From Freedom of Choice to Integration looks at the 1968 Supreme Court ruling t...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis lesson, provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, relates to the 14th Amendment, primarily the equal pr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Standing Up by Sitting Down: Early Bus Riders for Civil Rights
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryMore than ten years before Rosa Parks sat down on a Birmingham, Alabama, bus and refused to get up, and 15 years before Freedom ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit 3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States History, U.S. ConstitutionIn this classroom activity from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, students will create posters that will he...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis lesson relates to the 14th Amendment , primarily the equal protection clause, as well as to the powers of the Supreme Court...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Plessy v. Ferguson
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis page, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, focuses on significant events in American history and culture associ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Free at Last: The Civil Rights Movement in the United States
Grades: 3 to 6Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, United States History, Reading ComprehensionThis ThinkQuest offers a collection of informational pages on the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Students can find ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Dred Scott's Fight for Freedom
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis resource, from the EDSITEment-reviewed Africans in America Web site, features information about Dred Scott. Scott, a slave,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Dred Scott v. Sandford
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis resource, from the EDSITEment-reviewed Oyez Web site, focuses on the Dred Scott case. There is background information, a li...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Progressive Era: Separate but Equal
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, Psychology, Electives, United States HistoryThis Web page, part of the Jump Back in Time section of the America s Story Web site, describes how separate-but-equal polic...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0From Jim Crow To Linda Brown: A Retrospective of the African-American Experience from 1897 to 1953
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Electives, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis Library of Congress mini-unit allows students to explore to what extent the African American experience during the first ha...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, appeared on March 6, 1857, and announced the U.S. Supreme Cou...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0