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Civil Rights Movement Veterans
Remembrances of Civil Rights Movement workers who were active in the 1960s and '70s. Excellent site to gauge the impact of the movement on the workers themselves. Information about the Movement with eyewitness stories, poetry,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: African American Civil Rights Movement, 60s
A quick comprehension check over the African American Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s.
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era
This two-part feature on African American history offers an in-depth look at the events of the 1960's civil rights movement. Discusses voting rights, laws, military segregation, freedom rides, sit-ins and the NAACP. Includes historic...
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Plugger Publishing: Coming Together: Oral Histories of the Civil Rights Era
A collection of stories told by those who personally struggled through the 1960's Civil Rights Movement in the South. Forty of the thousands experienced hatred and prejudice speak out to share their experience.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: The Civil Rights Movement: 1919 1960s
Article provides an overview of the Civil Rights Movement in America between 1919 and the 1960s with detailed discussion on racial equality, nonviolence and passive resistance, and segregation.
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Oxford Aasc: The Civil Rights Movement of the 19502 and 1960s
View a visual essay of the Civil Rights movement. 10 mesmerizing images caught on camera--difficult to see, but difficult to look away from. A absolute must-see sight.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Sammy Davis Jr.
This is a collection of three video lessons about Sammy Davis Jr., comedy, race, segregation in 1960's Hollywood, politics, identity, and The Civil Rights Movement.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Civil Rights Movement
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on the Civil Rights Movement and leaders of the 1950's and the 1960's.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: A New Civil Rights Movement
A very brief overview of the inception of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s, its successes and failures into the 1960s, and a prediction of despair in the 1970s.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Empowering the Black Power Movement
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Freshman Academy: New Approaches to Civil Rights [Pdf]
This section from an American History book covers the extension of the application of civil rights that were legislated in the 1960s. Read about busing, affirmative action, disability rights movement, and the Native American protest...
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Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement: History & Timeline, 1960: Sit Ins
A turbulant time during U.S. history, read about the lunch counter sit-ins of the 1960s.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980:civil Rights Act 1964/voting Rights Act 1965
Learn about the civil rights legislation that outlawed discrimination in jobs, education, housing, public accommodations, and voting.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Black List Project: Barbara Harris
Civil rights activist Reverend Barbara Harris is featured for her involvement in freedom rides and marches in the 1960's.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Sncc and Core
Read about the two civil rights groups that organized nonviolent protests during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Kodak: Powerful Days in White and Black
Stunning black and white photos documenting the civil rights struggle in the 1960s.
PBS
Pbs: Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams & Black Power
Tells the story of civil rights activist Rob Williams and his belief that Black Americans needed to draw guns on violent racists.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980:the Election of 1968
Read about the pivotal election of 1968, which pitted Richard Nixon against Hubert Humphrey in a race shaped by backlash against the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War.
Other
Teaching Tennessee History: Lesson Plans for the Classroom Volume Ix [Pdf]
During these lessons, students will gain insight into segregation prior to the student sit-ins of the 1960s and explore how the Civil Rights Movement affected Tennessee.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1980 Present: Continuity and Change in the Postwar Era
How much did the events of the tumultuous postwar era reshape American national identity? Kim discusses the extent to which developments like the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, and student protests of the 1960s changed...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Writing in u.s. History: 1968: A Time of Change
Explore how the events and cultural and political changes that occurred in 1968 came to represent the upheaval and dramatic changes in American life during the 1960s. In this interactive lesson from WGBH, students develop a written...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry
Selected (7) reading passages (grades 8-10) to pair with the drama "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry. When a struggling African-American family receives a large insurance check, a conflict erupts on how to spend the money....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Second Wave Feminism
During the 1960s, influenced and inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, women of all ages began to fight to secure a stronger role in American society.
Brown University
The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968
Memories of 1968 are collected via interviews conducted by high school students. Important issues during that time include civil rights, Vietnam, the politics of the time and women's rights. There are transcripts of interviews and key...