Lessons and Classroom Handouts

Table of contents for Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching with links to selected handouts and readings.

 

Introduction

 

by Jenice L. View


Section 1: Reflections on Teaching about the Movement

Uncovering the Movement: A Staff Development Seminar [Handout 1] [Handout 2]

 

by Alana D. Murray

Section 2: Citizenship and Self-Determination

Updated Women's Work: The Untold Story of the Civil Rights Movement

 

by Deborah Menkart, Jenice L. View and Alana D. Murray

Montgomery Bus Boycott—Organizing Strategies and Challenges [Handouts]

 

by Alana D. Murray with elementary version by Maggie Nolan Donovan

Voices of Black Liberation

 

by Larry Miller

Freedom Song: Tactics for Transformation [Handouts]

 

by Alana D. Murray

The Black Panther Party: Legacy and Lessons for the Future [Handouts]

 

by Debbie Wei

What We Want, What We Believe [Handouts]

 

by Wayne Au

The Massacre at Tlatelolco, Mexico [Handouts]

 

by Octavio Ruiz, et al.

Vietnam: An Antiwar Comic Book

 

by Julian Bond and T. G. Lewis

Movers and Movements: Fighting for Social Justice in South Africa [Handouts]

 

by Brenda Randolph

The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz: Political Repression of the American Indian Movement During the 1970s

 

by Ward Churchill

Hidden in Plain Sight: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Radical Vision

 

by Craig Gordon

Bring It On!: Stories and Strategies for First Grade

 

by Maggie Nolan Donovan


Section 3: Education

Each School Had a Graveyard: Native American Boarding Schools [Handouts]

 

by Deborah Menkart

New Kent School and the George W. Watkins School: From Freedom of Choice to Integration

 

by Jody Allen, Brian Daugherity, and Sarah Trembanis

Acting for Justice

 

by Linda Christensen

A School Year Like No Other: Eyes on the Prize[Handouts]

 

by Bill Bigelow


Section 4: Economic Justice

Southern Tenant Farmers' Union: Black and White Unite? [Handouts]

 

by Bill Bigelow and Norman Diamond

El Acto: Studying the Mexican-American Experience through Farmworkers' Theatre [Handouts]

 

by George W. Chilcoat

Painting a Picture of the Movement: From Aaron Douglas to the Memphis Sanitation Workers [Additional Lessons]

 

by Patty Bode and Stephanie Schmidt

South African Unions Struggle for Justice [Handouts]

 

by Bill Bigelow


Section 5: Culture

Understanding Self-Defense in the Civil Rights Movement Through Visual Arts[Find art here]

 

by Sonia James-Wilson

Black History Month Shall Set You Free

 

by Jimi Izrael

Big Shoes to Fill

 

by Debora Kodish and Teresa Jaynes

Looking Forward

Resource Guide

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