20th Century
The Truth About Helen Keller
Background Reading for Teachers and High School Students - PDF. By Ruth Shagoury. 6 pages.
A review of children’s picture books about the life of Helen Keller reveals that the omission of any description of her active role in key social movements of the 20th century.
Globalization: A View from Below
Reading - PDF. By Jean-Bertrand Aristide. 5 pages.
An essay on the impact of globalization, with the story of Haiti as an example.
Lessons from Freedom Summer
Book - Teaching Guide. Edited by Kathy Emery, Linda Reid Gold and Sylvia Braselmann. 2008. 456 pages.
The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration
Teaching Guide. By Bill Bigelow. 2006. 160 pages.
Lessons for teaching about the history of US-Mexico relations and current border and immigration issues.
The Power In Our Hands: A Curriculum on the History of Work and Workers in the United States
Teaching Guide. By Bill Bigelow and Norman Diamond. 1988. 184 pages.
Role plays and writing activities project students into real-life situations to explore the history and contemporary reality of employment (and unemployment) in the U.S.
The Promise: Brown v. Board of Education, The Civil Rights Movement, and Our Schools
Teaching Guide. Edited by Rethinking Schools. 2004.
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.
Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World
Teaching Guide. By Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson. 2002. 402 pages. Grades 4 - 12.
An extensive collection of readings and source material on critical global issues, plus teaching ideas, lesson plans, and rich collections of resources for classroom teachers.
After Ghandi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance
Book - Nonfiction. By Anne Sibley O’Brien and Perry Edmund O’Brien. 192 pages.
Stories about 15 activists who continue in the tradition of Ghandi, written and illustrated for upper elementary and middle school.
Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement
Book-Nonfiction. By James Haskins. 1997. 128 pages.
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