Desegregation
Explores the desegregation of public spaces, including schools, transportation, and commercial and government establishments.
Introduction
Throughout U.S. history, communities of color fought for their right to equal access and for human dignity and equity. Desegregation in public schools, transportation, and other accommodations was more than court cases and legal victories. Desegregation was a long struggle led by students, parents, and every day citizens who experienced or saw the injustice of American segregation. Faced by indignities and violence, students and parents maintained the courage to fight for the rights of first class citizenship. They were not interested in integration, or the desire to mingle socially or otherwise with whites, but to break and reconstruct institutions that forced people of color into positions of poverty, illiteracy, and political powerlessness.
Lessons
Readings
Films, Books, and Other Resources
Lessons and Resources
Topics and Authors
- Reading
- Lesson
- Mississippi
- Desegregation
- Education
- SNCC
- Alabama
- Deborah Menkart
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Voting Rights
- Black Power
- Labor
- Ella Baker
- Teaching Reflection
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- SCLC
- Emilye Crosby
- Poetry
- Julian Bond
- Selma
- Jenice L. View
- MFDP
- Black Panther Party
- Primary Document
- Transportation
- Teaching Idea
- Rosa Parks
- Land
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Malcolm X
- Bob Moses
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Stokely Carmichael
- Julian Hipkins III
- Vietnam War
- John Lewis
- Voting Rights Act
- Timeline
- Sit-Ins
- March on Washington
- Judy Richardson
- Amzie Moore
- Alana D. Murray
- Maggie Nolan Donovan
- Colia Liddell Lafayette Clark
- Nonviolence
- Film
- Medgar Evers
- Emmett Till
- Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
- John Hulett
- Self-Defense
- Quiz
- Bill Bigelow
- Freedom Summer
- NAACP
- Tennessee
- Allison Acosta
- Art
- Claudette Colvin
- Prisons
- SNCC Digital Gateway
- Black Lives Matter
- Amelia Boynton
- Sheyann Webb
- Herbert Lee
- Adam Sanchez
- KKK
- Clyde Kennard
- FBI
- Patty Bode
- Charles Payne
- Linda Christensen
- Stephanie Schmidt
- CORE
- Highlander
- Introduction
- E.W. Steptoe
- Georgia
- Nicolás Guillén
- James Loewen
- Arkansas
- Louis Allen
- Redlining
- Annie Devine
- New York
- SCOTUS
- North Carolina
- Kentucky
- Elementary
- Eyes on the Prize
- Allyson Criner Brown
- A. Philip Randolph
- Chris Seeger
- Coretta Scott King
- James Meredith
- Hasan Jeffries
- Charles E. Cobb Jr.
- Bayard Rustin
- Police