Stanford University
Stanford University: Lesson Plan on the Children's Crusade
A well designed four part lesson plan that examines the use of children in the civil rights demonstration that occurred in Birmingham under the leadership of Dr. King.
Curated OER
Loc: For Teachers: From Slavery to Civil Rights: March for Civil Rights
Martin Luther King, Jr., addressing civil rights demonstrators.
Other
Tribal Court Clearinghouse: Text of Indian Civil Rights Act
A summary of the Indian Civil Rights Act, passed in 1968. Tells what the act is, what individual rights are protected by the act, and how the act differs from the Bill of Rights.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: Fifty Years After the March on Washington
Comprehensive resources on the civil rights movement allows students to broaden their understanding through video and primary source material as they analyze the motivation and experience of students who joined the movement and consider...
Other
No More Miss America (1968 1969)
Well-written article relates the story of the Miss America Beauty Pageant protest in 1968 by the New York Radical Women.
The Washington Post
Washington Post: With Protest, Nfl Player Is Exercising His Rights
The San Francisco 49ers backup QB, Colin Kaepernick, is making waves with his knee during the National Anthem.
PBS
Pbs Frontline: The Gate of Heavenly Peace
A companion website to the documentary about the protests at Tiananmen in 1989, and the resulting Beijing Massacre of June 4.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
This ibiblio.org site gives the six-year history of this college based group that supported the civil rights movement and tells of its nonviolent philosophy.
Youngzine
Youngzine: Women March Around the World
Read about the historical Women's March on Washington. Find out about what they were protesting, and how social media played a role.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Others Demand Equality
Many other groups learned how to push for their civil rights from African Americans' civil rights movement. Read about the Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and gays as they worked to achieve equal treatment under the law.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: The First March From Selma
This article details a key event in the civil rights struggle--the demonstration organized by the Rev. Martin Luther King in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965, when 525 people met a police blockade on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Julian Bond
Informative biography of one of the founding leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a leading civil rights group of the 1960s.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Susan B. Anthony
Read women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony's 1873 speech on women's right to vote, given the year after she was arrested for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Dr. King's Leadership and Character [Pdf]
This lesson plans looks at the leadership and character of Dr. King, and encourages students to draw connections to their lives. More lesson plans from the national parks service on civil rights and Dr. King can be found here:...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Names, Names, Names [Pdf]
A lesson plan for K-1 about important people in the Civil Rights movement. Requires Adobe Reader.
Other
People's World: The Chicago Freedom Movement: Summer of 1966
An informative and inspiring article about the African American struggle for civil rights in Chicago, 1966. The authors offer a first-hand account of protests against unfair housing and discrimination and the subsequent changes made.
Other
Fred T. Korematsu Institute: Korematsu v United States
Here's a biography of civil rights activist, Fred Korematsu, who protested his arrest and conviction in 1942 for his refusal to report to an internment camp for Japanese Americans. Find about his lifelong fight to clear his name and for...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Barbara Johns
The amazing story of Barbara Johns, the 16-year-old who called a strike and walk out to protest the overcrowding of Robert Russa Moton High School.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin" by Margot Adler
Rosa Parks is well-known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Alabama. A famous bus boycott followed because of her act of protest. However, Parks was not the first person to refuse to give up her seat. In...
iCivics
I Civics: Appellate Courts: Civic Action and Change
In this lesson, students examine civic action, the steps involved, and its various methods, including protests and petitions.
Other
Center for Asian American Media: Chronology of the Pro Democracy Movement
A detailed timeline starts with events in the early part of the 20th century and then covers the year 1989 during which the massive protests in Tiananmen Square took place.
United Nations
Refworld: Freedom in the World Niger (2007)
Resource discusses the attempt by the Nigerian Government, in 2006, to improve the country's social infrastructure and the protests from unions and other civic groups.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: The American Government: The Democratic Process
Given primary and secondary resources, students will be able to identify and analyze various methods of expanding the right to participate in the democratic process.
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Supreme Court Considers Free Speech and Protests
Hateful as these actions may seem to many people, do groups still have the right to protest under the First Amendment? Read about the case that the Supreme Court is considering involving protests at a military funeral.