Civil Rights Teaching
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
The collection includes more than 94 document projects or archives and 3,750 documents and 150,000 pages of additional full-text sources, written by almost 2,100 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. It continues to grow with two new issues/releases annually.
Hispanic Americans - Themed Resources
Explore the culture, contributions and interactions of Hispanic peoples in North America through rare maps, historical documents from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, local histories, recorded songs, interactive games, and detailed online bibliographies. From the Library of Congress
Women's History - Themed Resources
Examine print materials, photographs, and webcasts presenting women’s sometimes-overlooked contributions to history; learn about women as diverse as Jane Addams, Dorothea Lange, Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman and Zora Neale Hurston. from Library of Congress
American Rhetoric: Malcolm X - The Ballot or the Bullet (3 April 1964)
The Making of African American Identity: 1917-1968, National Humanities Center
A collection of primary resources-historical documents, literary texts,and works of art-thematically organized with notes and discussion questions from National Humanities Center from National Humanities Center
March in Frankfort - "What Goes Down in History?" HSI: Historical Scene Investigation
In this lesson students explore a series of oral history accounts which discuss the March on Frankfort in 1964 then try to decide how it will be remembered in history. This is a "doing history" lesson that invites students to ask questions of their own.
HSI: Historical Scene Investigation
In this lesson, students explore a series of oral history accounts which discuss the March on Frankfort in 1964. A newspaper account has been included to bring voice to the main speaker, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As students explore the evidence, they work through the "detective's log" to help them analyze and chart findings from the sources. In the end, they are asked to write a paragraph or two answering the following questions: Who will go down in history for the March on Frankfort? Additionally, the students will be asked to indicate whether they were satisfied with the evidence and to list any additional questions that have been left unanswered through the investigation.
Civil Rights Unit - Teaching Tolerance
This offers a detailed set of curriculum improvement strategies for classroom instructors who want to apply these practices. In five discreet steps, we identify specific suggestions and procedures for building robust, meaningful lessons that cultivate a deeper understanding of modern civil rights history.
Lessons & Resources — Civil Rights Teaching
Don't start teaching this unit again this year without at least skimming through these lessons