Eyes on the Prize Study Guide
224 Page viewing guide - worth the time for any teacher showing any excerpt from the film
Boston Before Busing – A Multimedia Exhibition Exploring Education Civil Rights in Boston from 1960-1974
Digital presentation of essays, primary source documents and timeline of events associated with the segregation in Boston schools. These materials might be more appropriate for NJ students to expose them to the northern dynamic of public school segregation
John F. Kennedy's 1963 Televised Address to the Nation on Civil Rights - YouTube
At the 17;40 minute mark of this video the Governor of Georgia is asked about his reaction to George Wallace's standing in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama and he explains that it is his view that Wallace (and Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi) are wrong to defy the 6th article of the Constitution. It would be worthwhile to show this to students to show that there is a difference of opinion in the south
Black family tried to move to all-White neighborhood in Rosedale, Queens (1976) - HARD TO WATCH - YouTube
Teachers should not use this in class without some very careful editing. WIth that warning however, this should absolutely be used to show students that segregation and racism was not a only a southern problem, but an American problem. The vivid aggressiveness of this video has an emotional payload that can't be matched by static black and white photographs.
"New Kids in the Neighborhood (Negro in the Suburb)" - Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) — Google Arts & Culture
For use as a discussion or writing prompt or in connection with a test question
Whose Law?: State Sovereignty and the Integration of the University of Alabama | JFK Library
Latino Action Network et al v. State of New Jersey - The Inclusion Project
Archives Photograph Collection - Will Counts
Will Counts was a photographer nearly his entire life, and for 32 years served as a Professor of Journalism at Indiana University. He worked for the Arkansas-Democrat in Little Rock, Arkansas, and The Associated Press in Chicago, but is well known for the photographs he shot of desegregation at Little Rock's Central High School in 1957
Muhammad Ali - Racial Integration - YouTube
If any teacher wants to make a class discussion about race incredibly difficult, this 3.5 minute clip will do it. In it. Muhammad Ali makes a case against what was previously called miscegenation
How segregated are New Jersey's schools and what can be done about it?
Although this news site is overgrown with ads and pop-ups this article may be useful for teachers hoping to impress upon students the desegregation in NJ Schools.
nearly half of the state's 585,000 black and Latino students go to schools that are more than 90 percent non-white,
New Jersey is the sixth most segregated state in the nation for black students, and seventh for Latino students, <a href="https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/new-jerseys-segregated-schools-trends-and-paths-forward/New-Jersey-report-final-110917.pdf" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">according to a study by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. </a>
In Paterson, 67 percent of students are Hispanic and 22 percent are black. Wayne, which borders Paterson to the west, is 11 percent Hispanic and 1 percent black.
The West Orange school district is 31 percent Hispanic and 38 percent black. Neighboring Essex Fells is 5 percent Hispanic and 3 percent black, while Millburn, which also borders West Orange, is 5 percent Hispanic and 2 percent black.
NJ Coalition for Diverse and Inclusive Schools (NJCDIS) | United Methodist Church of Greater New Jersey
New Jersey has among the most segregated public schools in the entire county
The New Jersey Coalition for Diverse and Inclusive Schools, Inc. (NJCDIS) is a non‐profit corporation organized under New Jersey law whose members are dedicated to redressing the intense racial and economic segregation in New Jersey public schools.
Microsoft Word - Brown 65 050819v4_without_figures for formatting cover 2.docx
We teach about segregation during the Civil Rights movement, this data shows that it still exists. Furthermore, it shows that schools are more segregated in the north than the south
Home - Robert Russa Moton Museum
16 Year old Barbara Johns led a student boycott of the Robert Russa Morton High School in 1951, demanding that a new school be built for African Americans. Her case was one of the four collected into the Board V Board case
The 70th Anniversary of the Moton School Walkout - Virginia Humanities
Led by a 16 year old who is, although acknowledged in Virginia, is not even noticed by the taught narrative canon
Teen Activists | BackStory with the American History Guys
Story of Barbara Johns and the 1951 boycott of her high school in Virginia - and how that became part of the Brown V Board Car
Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 – The Public Domain Review
Primary source images of the Tulsa Massacre of 1921
Latino Action Network et al v. State of New Jersey - The Inclusion Project
How many New Jersey High school teachers talk to their students about Brown v. Board and Little Rock High School without talking about the segregation in their own state? This lawsuit provides materials to do just that
Civil Rights: Citizens' Letters on the Little Rock Crisis | Eisenhower Presidential Library
Instead of giving students just two or three primary source documents give them a set like this and have them analyze, and categorize them as historians would.
Albert Woodfox, who spent nearly 44 years in solitary confinement, dies : NPR
Students should know of this story. Any elementary school lesson about "wants and needs" could benefit as well.
Making the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 – The JFK Library Archives: An Inside Look
Several primary sources in here worth a look
Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968) - Flashbak
Charlie Brown is an iconic comic book character known to almost all teachers and students, though the comic strip itself has a deep history. Within that history in the process through which a Black child was introduced to the comic strep in 1968
“There was one strip where Charlie Brown and Franklin had been playing on the beach, and Franklin said, ‘Well, it’s been nice being with you, come on over to my house some time. [My editors] didn’t like that. Another editor protested once when Franklin was sitting in the same row of school desks with Peppermint Patty, and said, ‘We have enough trouble here in the South without you showing the kids together in school.
Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Situation in Little Rock. | The American Presidency Project
Eisenhower's televised speech in September of 1957 is a firm declaration in defense of the rule of law. Although delivered in the early stages of the Civil Rights movement, these words have a certain applicability to the 2020s
Our personal opinions about the decision have no bearing on the matter of enforcement; the responsibility and authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution are very clear.
They thus demonstrated to the world that we are a nation in which laws, not men, are supreme.
The very basis of our individual rights and freedoms rests upon the certainty that the President and the Executive Branch of Government will support and insure the carrying out of the decisions of the Federal Courts, even, when necessary with all the means at the President's command.
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
A foundation of our American way of life is our national respect for law.
Mothers' League of Central High School - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
This mother's group opposed the integration of Central High school in Little Rock. Teachers may notice the similarity to the "Moms of Liberty" of the 2020s
The Montgomery Story (comic book)
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story is a 16-page comic book about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery bus boycott published in 1957 by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR USA). It advocates the principles of nonviolence and provides a primer on nonviolent resistance. Although ignored by the mainstream comics industry, it was widely distributed among civil rights groups, churches, and schools. It helped inspire nonviolent protest movements around the Southern United States, and later in Latin America, South Africa,the Middle East, and elsewhere.
Harry S. Ashmore of Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, AR - The Pulitzer Prizes
As much as students need to be exposed to the the hatred of segregationists in Little Rock, they also need to see the upstanders who took risks by opposing segregation. This is a small collection of editorials published by the Arkansas Gazette that won a pultizer prize in 1958.
Memorial service for James Chaney - American Archive of Public Broadcasting
This is a primary source that stretches the imagination to even be in existence, much less accessible to students and teachers of US History
Viola Liuzzo Memorial Marker - Encyclopedia of Alabama
There are many, many forgotten names in the Civil Rights movement that never made it to the taught narrative canon. Teachers can just grab the picture of this monument marker and be given five minutes to learn more about Viola. A simple intro activity to a larger lesson, the process could yield in them a better understanding of the wide spectrum of individuals who were part of the movement
Two Versions of John Lewis' Speech | BillMoyers.com
Instead of doing the "I Have a Dream" speech again (AGAIN), teachers should split their classes and give each half a different version of this speech without telling them the back story - then haven the compare and contrast discussion before telling the about it