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Digital History
Digital History: Two Paths Towards Equality [Pdf]
During the time of rising segregation in the late 19th century two African-American leaders offered two opposite views about how to advance civil rights for African-Americans. Read about the philosophies of those leaders. Booker T....
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.
White Pine Pictures
White Pine Pictures: Breaking the Ice: The Mary Ann Shadd Story
Mary Ann Shadd was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1823. She emigrated to Windsor, Upper Canada and was a leader in advocating for integrated schools at a time when most Canadians believed segregated schools should predominate. This web...
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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.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Church as a Factor in Solving the Race Problem
During the worst days of segregation, the Church served as a haven for African Americans. Read two sermons by Samuel Wallace addressing the social injustices faced by African Americans in the late 1800's.
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Holton School District: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Very detailed background and author information, along with questions for each chapter of this novel about life in the segregated society of Mississippi.
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International Civil Rights Center & Museum: The Sit in Movement
This interesting list shows how the sit-in movement spread in just three months across the South. Students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities encouraged the non-violent actions to protest segregation.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Richard Wright
Author Richard Wright is presented in this biography which draws upon his brutal honesty in describing life in the racially segregated south. See "Richard Wright Activities" for related artifacts and activities.
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Social Protests
Article with questions for writing and discussion on the social protests of the Civil Rights Movement. Students analyze the strengths and weaknesses of various strategies used during the 50s and 60s to challenge segregation and improve...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: Post Civil War America
[Free Registration/Login Required] "A variety of materials demonstrates the rise and fall of civil rights for African Americans during the latter half of the nineteenth century, including constitutional amendments, sharecropper...
Read Works
Read Works: Civil Rights on a City Bus
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about Rosa Parks and her non-violent protest of segregation laws in the South. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Rosa Parks Arrested
This 3-part article explores Rosa Park's famous act of civil disobedience -- refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger. Her subsequent arrest sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system and the 1956 Supreme...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Baseball and Social Change: The Story of Roberto Clemente
In this blended lesson supporting literacy skills, students learn about baseball legend Roberto Clemente, his early years in the United States during segregation, and changes in the 1960s that made the U.S. culture more open to...
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Jackie Robinson: Desegregation Begins With a Baseball
Article presenting the story of Jackie Robinson and how he challenged segregation through American baseball.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Out of the Night That Covers Me
Through the novel Out of the Night That Covers Me, students will explore the impact of racial segregation, family heritage, and the historical significance of pre-civil rights Alabama. This unit of study is recommended for students in...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Learn about Rosa Parks's courageous decision to fight discrimination and the boycott that ended segregation on public buses.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Yemenis
The Yemenis are a Muslim and Arabic-speaking people who are mainly Arabs, although a small percentage of the population has African and Asian ancestry. Yemeni values have traditionally relied on a hierarchical, tribally organized, and...
A&E Television
History.com: Black Heroes Throughout Us Military History
Meet the standout soldiers, spies and homefront forces who fought for America, from the Revolution to World War II. During the American Revolution, thousands of Black Americans fought -- on both sides of the conflict. As America's Civil...
A&E Television
History.com: Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry Fought Bravely in Korea Then Had to Fight for Redemption
The Borinqueneers, the U.S. military's only all-Hispanic unit, saw their sacrifice and achievements overshadowed by a trumped-up court martial. The U.S. Army's 65th Infantry Regiment, the only all-Hispanic unit that hailed mostly from...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Nyakyusa and Ngonde
The Nyakyusa of southwestern Tanzania are known from missionary and traveler's records since the beginning of European contact with the East African interior in the 1870s. The Nyakyusa are especially noted for their system of "age...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Martin Luther King Jr.: Civil Rights Leader Video
In the second half of the 20th century, racial tensions rose in the US as African Americans began to challenge unjust laws that supported discrimination and segregation. This movement found its leader in the patient and inspiring...
Curated OER
History Matters: w.e.b. Du Bois Critiques Booker T. Washington
W.E.B.DuBois, famous African American activist, wrote an essay disputing the path Booker T. Washington advocated in his Atlanta Compromise speech, and, instead, proposed a call for greater political power, civil rights, and higher...
Curated OER
History Matters:booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech
Read some introductory commentary before reading the speech Booker T. Washington gave in Atlanta in September, 1895. This speech became known as the Atlanta Compromise speech and has received mixed reviews over the years.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Identity, Making of African American Identity: V. 2, 1865 1917
Sixteen primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, visual images, audio, and video material-that explore how African Americans created group and individual identities in the late-nineteenth century.
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