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- Toni Morrison
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- Betty Friedan
- Dolores Huerta
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- James Farmer
- Rosa Parks
- Shirley Chisolm
- Jackie Robinson
- Jacques Cousteau
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- Wilt Chamberlain
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Hank Aaron
- Bill Russell
- Bob Gibson
- Muhammad Ali
- Jim Brown
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Octavia Butler
- Shirley Chisholm
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Coretta Scott King
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Bill Cosby
- Tina Turner
- Huey Newton
- Arthur Ashe
- Stevie Wonder
- Stokely Carmichael
- Lucille Clifton
- Nikki Giovanni
- Alex Haley
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- Ntozake Shange
- Fannie Lou Hamer
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Fourth graders explore the concept of civil rights and the ways in which Dr. Martin Luther Kind and others utilized non-violent protests to achieve their goals. They participate in a variety of discussion and role play activities during this comprehensive unit.
Students engage in a instructional activity about Civil Rights while looking at the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They conduct research and discuss the provisions of the law. Students also look through primary and secondary sources to explain why the bill was required.
Students explore the Constitution and the freedoms listed in the 13th-15th amendments. They observe a documentary video on the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr. giving his famous civil rights speech. After discussion, students write a summary of the videos. In pairs, they create a word search about the Civil Rights movement.
Learners investigate the historical events that surrounded the Civil Rights Movement. They conduct research using a variety of resources that is used in conjunction with a video to reinforce prior knowledge. The information is used to conduct class discussion.
In this famous people worksheet, students read a selection about Noam Chomsky and complete a variety of comprehension activities including but not limited to a synonym match, spelling, writing and sequencing activities.
Students explore what the United States would be like today if the Bill of Rights had never been written. In this exploring the constitution instructional activity, students research Supreme Court cases that were heard in the early years of the U.S. Constitution, write about the specifics of the case and share their findings with the other students.
In this controversial issues worksheet, students read 15 famous quotations on controversial topics and identify who said each of them.
Middle schoolers discuss the activism and activist leaders of the 1970's human rights movements involving women, migrant workers and Native Americans. They perform a mock "sit-in" and protest regarding a current societal issue. This is an impressive, 26-page plan.
Students analyze civil disobedience through history studying Thoreau, Gandhi, and Dr. King. In this civil disobedience lesson, students read and analyze excerpts from Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. Students demonstrate their reading comprehension of the lesson by creating a skit, digital story, or analysis paper.
What happened on March 13, 1868? What happened on March 21, 1965? Eager readers fill in the missing historical event occurring on one day in March from 1862 - 1995. There are 31 events each occurring on a different day in March. This is a fun way to warm up your kids for a day of social studies.