Learn about the Chicago Chapter of CORE, or the Congress of Racial Equality, one of the most important civil rights organizations in the United States.

This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, Justice, Freedom & Equality: What is fair?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account...

Teachers and students can find a comprehensive summary of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case. Learn about the myths and find out the truth. The activities offered are especially meaningful. Students can perform a...

A collection of archival video clips highlighting the efforts of African Americans to fight racial segregation in education. Looks at the struggle of James H. Meredith to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962, and the resulting...

A collection of archival video clips along with town hall discussions on racial equality and the civil rights struggle by African Americans. The discussion participants include civil rights leaders, activists, religious leaders,...

Letters and telegrams from the co-founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), James farmer, help tell the story of his fight against segregation during the Kennedy years.

This section from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History's exhibition Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education gives the history of Jim Crow laws and how they affected not only the voting rights of...

Selected (9) reading passages (grades 10-12) to pair with "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd. In this novel about family connections and racial equality, Lily Owens and Rosaleen, Lily's housekeeper, run away to Tiburon, South...

A cross-curricular lesson plan from PBS on Ralph Ellison's novel, "The Invisible Man." Ties a U.S. History study of the struggle for equality and civil rights with an analysis of the novel.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Using a thorough Glossary of Terms, students discuss the idea of being separate but equal.

A collection of archival video clips covering the racial unrest and violence in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, including the church bombing where four young black girls were killed. Also includes clips on the murder of NAACP leader Medgar...

Comprehensive teaching unit on egalitarian America: Americans that demanded political, social, and economic equality in all walks of life. Learn how the civil rights movement and an expanding mass media helped to reshape a changing...

Learn about this day devoted to reversing racial discrimination and how you can take part in the activism.

Read a brief biography of W.E.B. DuBois, who was an early civil rights activist and supporter of equal opportunity and treatment for African-Americans. See how he acted on his beliefs. Included is a brief quiz about the Progressive Era.

Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing which examine actions and interactions during the Regan administration and their impact on the Civil Rights Movement.

The Masses was a socialist magazine begun in 1911. Under the direction of Max Eastman, the magazine became an advocate of racial equality and women's rights and promoted many writers and artists. It was well known for its political art,...

Find Jim Crow laws, see signs, and read restrictive covenants that restricted freedom of movement, housing, and use of public facilities by African Americans in the late 19th and 20 centuries.

The Southern Manifesto, written in opposition to the racial integration of public places and condemning the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation decision, was signed by 101 congressmen from the Deep South.

Test for your hidden bias. Even though we believe we see and treat people as equals, hidden biases may still influence our perceptions and actions. Each test takes about five minutes, and your privacy is protected.

March 21 is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Learn about the history of this of importat day and its origin in 1960's South Africa.

A collection of archival video clips covering the early days of the civil rights movement in the United States. Looks at reaction to the lynching of a teenager named Emmett Till in Chicago, Rosa Park's protest, the Montgomery Bus...

This article gives a brief overview of the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. while discussing the concept of non-violent resistance.

Contains a copy of the original program for the March on Washington that featured Martin Luther King. Provides a summary of the civil rights movement at that time.

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.