Curated OER
Episode # 158A
Students research the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and determine how they can contribute to community projects.
Curated OER
Suffering and Sunset: An African American Artist's Impression of World War I
Students study paintings by a Pennsylvania artist, Horace Pippin, to explore African-American contributions in World War I. They create presentations based on their impressions of the artwork.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: Challenging Segregation in Public Education
A senior high lesson plan on segregation in schools.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Segregation
Steven Lawson, Professor of History at Rutgers, explores how racial segreagation changed from before the Civil War up to the 1950s and the differences in segregation between the North and the South. Students should understand the legacy...
NBC
Nbc Learn: Finishing the Dream: 1960 1962: Freedom Fighters
A collection of archival video clips covering protests against racial segregation in the United States in the period 1960-1962. Features clips on the Greensboro sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counters, Freedom Riders who fought bus...
University of Nebraska
U. Of Nebraska: Railroads and Making of Modern America: Origins of Segregation
Primary source materials that focus on the segregation of African Americans that took place on the railroads in the 1800s. Content includes newspaper articles, anecdotal accounts, letters, legal cases, etc.
Other
Bringing History Home: Segregation History
This 3rd grade unit introduces children to the history of segregation, from the end of the Civil War in 1865 through the 1940s. Its content bridges the period between slavery and the peak of the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and...
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Racial Segregation History in the United States
This article contains numerous facts about black segregation history in the United States from the Civil War through the end of the Civil Rights Movement.
NBC
Nbc Learn: Finishing the Dream: 1962 1963: Standoffs
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Activism in the Civil Rights Movement
In this interactive lesson, students will learn about the historical background of racial segregation and the brave individuals and groups who stood up against segregation during the 1950s and 1960s.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Segregation Ordinances: Birmingham, Al
This document from 1951 spells out Birmingham's segregation ordinances, the laws requiring the separation of the races.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Lynching and Segregation: Making of African American Identity
Primary source articles discusses mob violence and the practice of lynching while examining social conformity and segregation. Links to both articles, summary of text and questions for discussion.
NBC
Nbc Learn: Finishing the Dream
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,...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Segregation
A Supreme Court decision, a chapter from a novel, and an editorial that explore segregation in late-nineteenth-century America. This resource focuses primarily on Plessy v. Ferguson, and the complexities that followed from this ruling.
University of Washington
University of Washington: Congress of Racial Equality (Core) Actions 1942 1970
Overview of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)with maps and charts showing the geography of CORE activism.
Digital History
Digital History: Segregation in the North; Case Study: Boston 7 [Pdf]
Read about the law suit against Boston Public Schools claiming that the schools were segregated in fact, although not by law. See the results of busing and read the addendum about the status of integration in Boston at this time. The...
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: An Act of Courage: Arrest Records of Rosa Parks
A vividly detailed account of the events that led to the arrest of Rosa Parks for "violating a city law requiring racial segregation of public buses". Provided are copies of documents relating to her arrest that were used as evidence in...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Supreme Court: Expanding Civil Rights: Brown v. Board of Education
This is a detailed overview of the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education which held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The...
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
This is an online study guide/notes for the book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis. This nonfiction book describes the...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Segregation Separation: Making of African American Identity: V. 3
This resource summarizes and links to primary source articles examining the relationship between segregation and racial separation highlighting some of the effects of segregation on the black community post World War I.
Digital History
Digital History: Freedom Now
When four African American North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College students refused to leave the lunch-counter at the F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro they started the first non-violent, "sit-in" movement. Although the...
University of Virginia
Race and Place: An African American Community
"Race and Place" is an archive about the racial segregation laws, or the 'Jim Crow' laws from the late 1880s until the mid-twentieth century. The focus of the collection is the town of Charlottesville in Virginia. The site contains...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Beyond Brown: Recognize & Combat Segregation in u.s. Schools
A lesson plan on the continuing problem of school segregation that asks students to identify instances of school segregation today, to determine the reasons behind it, and to develop a plan for combating segregation in today's schools....
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Racial Politics, Making of African American Identity: V. 2
Chapter from a novel and images that illustrate black political action in late-nineteenth-century America. Frances Harper's 1892 novel Iola Leroy, is examined, covering topics of white supremacy and racial justice.