Lesson Plan
Allison Moorer performs at an evening of readings from Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's book Voices of a People's History of the United States, May 2,…
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iCivics presents a series of short, animated videos that examine the actions and accomplishments of civil rights activists of the 1950’s and 60’s. Barbara Johns, Constance Baker Motley, and J.D. and Ethel Shelley, these figures probably haven’t made it to your textbook, and yet their contributions have helped shape our nation in insurmountable ways. iCivics brings these untold stories to a classroom near you.
Photographers working in the 1930s and 1940s for the Farm Security Administration documented social and economic conditions experienced by African Americans that called out for redress. In the following decades, news photographers and participants captured many facets of the evolving civil rights movement. This album does not include the most iconic photographs from the era, most of which may still be under copyright. But it does show the many people and approaches involved in the campaign for equality in its most dramatic moments as well as its quieter ones.
Learn More:
• Explore a new online exhibit at the Library of Congress: “The Civil Rights Act of 1964”
• View a selection of images: “The Civil Rights Era in the U.S. News & World Report Collection” on the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division site.
• Look through photographs made by Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photographers of the many locations where people encountered signs enforcing racial discrimination in the 1930s and '40s.
Created with Mr. Szostak's US II class in mind
The American civil rights movement incorporated a variety of cultural elements in their pursuit of political and legal equality under law. This lesson will highlight the role of music as a major influence through the use of audio recordings, photographs, and primary documents. Students will participate in their own oral history, examine lyrics, and work with case studies such as the Freedom Rides to gain an appreciation of how music influenced the early 1960s.
To improve history lessons on the period, educators emphasize the roles of grassroots activists, churches, schools, and women.
Facing History and Ourselves just made the docuseries about the Civil Rights Movement—and lesson plans—available online.
Explore collections and stories from around the world with Google Arts & Culture.
On the flip side of many 45 RPM records made by African Americans in the '40s, '50s and '60s there are Civil Rights songs that no one has ever heard
On the flip side of many 45 RPM records made by African Americans in the '40s, '50s and '60s there are Civil Rights songs that no one has ever heard
The Civil Rights Movement had clear goals for economic equality, many of which remain unmet.
The Kunhardt Film Foundation is a not-for-profit educational media company that produces documentary films, interviews and teaching tools about the people and ideas that shape our world.
The Kunhardt Film Foundation is a not-for-profit educational media company that produces documentary films, interviews and teaching tools about the people and ideas that shape our world.
Episode 3, Season 3
Music chronicles the history of the civil rights struggle: The events, tactics and emotions of the movement are documented in songs of the era. From The Freedom Singers to Sam Cooke, historian Charles L. Hughes explains how your students can use music for both historical insight and evidence in the classroom.
On May 12, 2009, the U. S. Congress authorized a national initiative by passing The Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-19). The law directs the Library of Congress (LOC) and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to conduct a survey of existing oral history collections with relevance to the Civil Rights movement to obtain...
A complete listing of items on display during the Voices of Civil Rights exhibition at the Library of Congress.
NewseumED website is full of lesson plans, activities, historical newspapers, videos and photographs on the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr.
