Framing the Movement
Additional Lessons
LESSON
Write that I… for the Civil Rights Movement
By Linda Christensen, as applied by Deborah Menkart
Students research Civil Rights Movement activists and then write poetry based on what they have learned.
LESSON
Women Make History
By Jenice L. View
A mixer lesson to introduce students to women from various social justice struggles from throughout U.S. history.
LESSON
Freedom's Children: An Oral History Unit on the Civil Rights Movement
By Laurel R. Singleton
A lesson to help children understand the racism faced by African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement and recognize that young people can help bring about social change by reading and discussing the interviews in Freedoms' Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories.
LESSON
Each School Had a Graveyard: Native American Boarding Schools
Native American boarding schools were part of a U.S. federal government strategy to dominate and assimilate Indigenous Peoples. In this lesson, students examine primary text and visual sources to gain an understanding of the ways in which theories of race and assimilation affected education policies in the past.
LESSON
Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
By the Choices Program at Brown University
Students trace the history of the Black freedom struggle from Reconstruction through the 1960s. Readings and activities focus on the grassroots movement to achieve civil rights for African Americans.
TEACHING REFLECTION
Freedom Camp: A Teach-in on the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
By Katie Kissinger
How one group of educators plans a day of activities for children five and older to learn about the people, events, and songs of the Civil Rights Movement.
Teaching Reflection
From Snarling Dogs to Bloody Sunday: Teaching Past the Platitudes of the Civil Rights Movement
By Katie Lyman
Reflection on teaching young children about the Civil Rights Movement.