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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMartin Luther King Day Teaching Resources
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryMartin Luther King, Jr., is one of the United States most celebrated civil rights activists. A minister, Dr. King championed ca...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkResources for Teaching American History: Civil Rights
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryMultimedia site includes teacher-selected primary sources, a video on Medgar Evers, elementary-school lessons on Rosa Parks and ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJackie Robinson: Beyond the Playing Field
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Sports and Competition, Physical Education, Electives and 3 additional..Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) was the first black man to officially play major league baseball in the 20th century. This resource ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words through Diamante Poetry
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students explore the ways that powerful and passionate words communicate the concepts of fr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWe Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
Grades: 4, 12Subjects: American Democracy, Geography, Electives, History-Social Science, PsychologyThis resource, from the National Park Service, offers a virtual tour of historic places related to the modern civil rights movem...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"I Have a Dream" Speech-PDF Version
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language ArtsThis web page, from Stanford University, is a pdf version of Martin Luther King Jr. s I Have a Dream speech. It is available i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMalcolm Knew He Was a "Marked Man"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Islam, History-Social Science, Religion, United States HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, discusses an interview with Malcolm X, given the week before ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLesson Plan: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X -- A Common Solution?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this lesson, from Stanford University, students explore the ideological and political development of Martin Luther King, Jr. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEleanor Roosevelt Letter About Marian Anderson
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Music, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, History-Social Science, United States HistoryIncluded in this online exhibit from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the original typescript of a let...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCompeting Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this EDSITEment unit, Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, students will gain a better understanding of the diversi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Reel" Moments in Black History
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, United States History, English-Language ArtsThis Web page, from CNN, features links to a series of video clips that depict four important events in black history. Clips inc...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVoices of Civil Rights
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, The Civil Rights MovementVoices 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Kennedy Administration and the Civil Rights Movement
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryStudents learn how civil rights activists, state and local officials in the South, and the Administration of President Kennedy c...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOrdinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: U.S. Constitution, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis lesson, from EDSITEment, focuses on the individual men and women who embraced Martin Luther King, Jr.'s message of nonviole...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Civil Rights Era
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, documents the lives of African Americans during the Civil Rights...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRights-Minded: Investigating the Lives of People Who Influenced the Civil Rights Movement
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, United States History, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students expand their knowledge and understanding of the Civil Rights ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMartin Luther King, Jr.
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, United States History, Literature, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his contributions to the Civil Rights moveme...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStanding Up by Sitting Down: Early Bus Riders for Civil Rights
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social Science, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSeparate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education Lesson Plan, Unit 3: An Organized Legal Campaign
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, U.S. Constitution, History-Social Science, United States HistoryIn this classroom activity from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, students will create posters that will he...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRosa Parks
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Rosa Parks and her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. A classroom ac...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0