Brown v. Board

Brown at 50: Fulfilling the Promise- Site hosted by Howard University School of Law

Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission

Brown v. Board of Education Matters to All Americans- Site hosted by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.

Civil Rights Project at Harvard University

Equal Terms in LA: The Struggle for Educational Justice, 1954-2004—Site hosted by Teaching to Change LA

Horizons of Opportunities: Celebrating 50 Years of Brown v. Board of Education- Site hosted by the National Education Association

In Pursuit of Freedom & Equality: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka- Site hosted by Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence, and Research

National Park Service- About the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site

Education and Lesson Plans

Organizations with lessons and other resources for educators

Rethinking Schools- The best journal and website on education reform and teaching for social justice. Includes many lessons on the Civil Rights Movement.

Teaching Tolerance- A source for free videos on the Civil Rights Movement, and an excellent biannual journal.

Specific Lessons

American History- For Black History Month, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library has created an educational website that focuses on Black migration over the last 400 years. The website gives free access to historical documents such as photographs, maps, and articles. The project also includes 100 reproducible lesson plans for teachers. (Feb. 7) .

Brown v. Board from Street Law

Education and Democracy- Contains the original Freedom School Curriculum of Mississippi as well as other valuable Movement materials.

Freedom Riders: History, timeline and lessons on the 1961 Freedom Rides.

Freedom Song- Background and teaching ideas for the film.

Hidden in Plain Sight: Martin Luther King Jr.s’ Radical Vision- From the Urban Dreams website.

Integrating with All Deliberate Speed- Created by The National Visionary Leadership Project, this free lesson plan on the Civil Rights Movement features video clips, a timeline, photographs, historical documents and other primary resources.

Little Rock Central High School Memory Project-A website produced by students at Little Rock’s Central High School, the scene of a major battle in the civil rights movement 49 years ago. The site includes more than a hundred essays based on interviews with family friends and neighbors. Teachers also share lesson plans. http://lrchmemory.org/.

Looking Back...Reaching Forward- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has created this series of six lesson plans for high school students that challenges students to investigate whether segregation is a problem that we once lived with or still live with in U.S. schools. In addition to providing factual history, this unit aims to connect past to present, challenge students to reflect on their own beliefs about diversity, and inspire social action in local schools and communities.

Mosaic America through Literary Art: The Civil Rights Movement via African Americans, Chicanos, and Native Americans- From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. There are several other specific lesson plans on this site.

New Kent School and the George W. Watkins School: From Freedom of Choice to Integration- From the National Park Service website on teaching with historic places.

October 1960: The Untold Story of Jackson's Civil Rights Movement- From the Jackson Sun newspaper.

Riding the Bus, Taking a Stand- From the Alabama Department of Archives and History

Teaching Brown: Reflections on Pedagogical Challenges and Opportunities- From the History of Education Quarterly. This includes a teacher’s resource guide to preparing curriculum material.

Film Distributors

Berkeley Media Resource Center: African American Studies

Progressive film producers and distributors

Organizations

Affirmative Action

The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action & Integration, and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)


Antiwar

Educators To Stop the War

WarTimes- The best source of news on the truth behind the war


Civil Rights

CivilRights.org- Coalition of over 180 organizations

Ruby Bridges Foundation

Sojourn to the Past: A Civil Rights Education Project

Rivers of Change- The world knows of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Mrs. Rosa Parks, but people know little about the events that propelled them to such fame and recognition. Rivers of Change: The Legacy of Five Unheralded Women in Montgomery and their Struggle for Justice and Dignity©” is about the struggles of five unknown women that were instrumental in starting and ending the Montgomery bus boycott. It is the story of women who reversed a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Criminal Justice/Prisoner Rights

Education Not Incarceration

Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

Regional
Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project - The goal of this project is to bring local civil rights history into the Seattle area classrooms, and help teachers figure out how to integrate it with the larger civil rights curriculum. The website features oral histories, primary source documents, photographs and research reports.

Southern Echo- Based in Jackson, Mississippi, to build new, accountable grassroots leadership and organization, based on an intergenerational model, through training, technical and legal assistance.

Southwest Organizing Project