Civil Rights Movements

‘What We Want, What We Believe’: Teaching with the Black Panthers’ Ten Point Program

Teaching Activity PDF. By Wayne Au. 7 pages.
The author describes how he used a study of the Black Panther’s Ten Point Program to help students assess issues in their own communities and to develop Ten Point Programs of their own.

African American, Civil Rights Movements, Racism & Racial Identity

Women, Gays, and Other Voices of Resistance

Teaching Activity PDF. By Jack Bareilles. 17 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 19 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the emergence and legacy of the 1960s counterculture, as well as the movements it helped create.

Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, LGBT, Laws & Citizen Rights, Women's History

The Black Upsurge Against Racial Segregation

Teaching Activity PDF. By Tasha Boettcher. 17 pages.
Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 17 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on the long civil rights movement in America.

African American, Civil Rights Movements, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity, Social Class

Lessons from Freedom Summer

Book - Teaching Guide. Edited by Kathy Emery, Linda Reid Gold and Sylvia Braselmann. 2008. 456 pages.

Civil Rights Movements, Education

The Promise: Brown v. Board of Education, The Civil Rights Movement, and Our Schools

Teaching Guide. Edited by Rethinking Schools. 2004.

Civil Rights Movements, Education, Racism & Racial Identity

Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching

Teaching Guide. Edited by Deborah Menkart, Alana D. Murray and Jenice L. View. 2004. 576 pages.
Provides lessons and articles for K-12 educators on how to go beyond a heroes approach to the Civil Rights Movement.

Civil Rights Movements, Labor

500 Años del Pueblo Chicano - 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures

Book - Nonfiction. By Elizabeth Martinez. 1991 (2nd Edition)

Civil Rights Movements, Latino, Native American, Women's History

500 Years of Chicana Women’s History

Book - Nonfiction. By Elizabeth Martinez. 2007. 340 pages.
Stories and photos of Mexican-American women in politics, labor, art, health, and more.

Civil Rights Movements, Immigration, Latino, Women's History

Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement

Book - Non-Fiction. By James Haskins. 1997. 128 pages.

Civil Rights Movements, Individuals in US History

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Book - Nonfiction. By Philip Hoose. 133 pages. Ages 10+
The story of Claudette Colvin, a teenager who refused to give up her seat in the year leading up to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.