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Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, 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: 0From Canterbury to Little Rock: The Struggle for Educational Equality for African Americans
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, The Civil Rights MovementFrom Canterbury to Little Rock: The Struggle for Educational Equality for African Americans highlights two historic places and t...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Standing Up by Sitting Down: Early Bus Riders for Civil Rights
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: United States History, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceMore 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: 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: 0We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
Grades: 4, 12Subjects: Electives, Psychology, American Democracy, History-Social Science, GeographyThis resource, from the National Park Service, offers a virtual tour of historic places related to the modern civil rights movem...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Resources 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: 0Rights-Minded: Investigating the Lives of People Who Influenced the Civil Rights Movement
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, United States History, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students expand their knowledge and understanding of the Civil Rights ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Revisiting 'Separate but Equal': Examining School Segregation 45 Years After Brown v. Board of Education
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, United States History, American Democracy, History-Social Science, 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: 0High Court Bans School Segregation; 9-to-0 Decision Grants Time to Comply
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes the landmark Supreme Court Brown vs. Board of Educa...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0200,000 March for Civil Rights in Orderly Washington Rally; President Sees Gain for Negro
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how 200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0From Segregation to Sit-ins: The Greensboro Woolworth Lunch Counter
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis teacher's resource, included in "The Object of History", a cooperative project between the Smithsonian's National Museum of...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0