Teaching SNCC: The Organization at the Heart of the Civil Rights Revolution
Teaching Activity. By Adam Sanchez. 24 pages. Rethinking Schools.
A series of role plays that explore the history and evolution of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, including freedom rides and voter registration.
Time Periods: 20th Century, People’s Movement: 1961 - 1974, Post-Civil Rights Era: 1975 - 2000
Themes: Voting Rights, African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Organizing, Racism & Racial Identity, Social Class, Women's History
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Who Gets to Vote? Teaching About the Struggle for Voting Rights in the United States
Teaching Activity. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. 2020.
Unit with three lessons on voting rights, including the history of the struggle against voter suppression in the United States.
Time Periods: All US History
Themes: Voting Rights, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship
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Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote
Book - Non-fiction. By Gordon A. Martin Jr. 2014.
A detailed portrait of brave individuals who risked everything in their fight for the right to vote.
Time Periods: 20th Century, People’s Movement: 1961 - 1974
Themes: Voting Rights, African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship
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One Person, No Vote (YA edition): How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally
Book - Non-fiction. By Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden. 2019. 288 pp.
A young readers edition of Anderson's voter suppression analysis and history, One Person, No Vote.
Time Periods: 19th Century, 20th Century, People’s Movement: 1961 - 1974, 21st Century
Themes: Voting Rights, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship
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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Book — Non-fiction. By Martha S. Jones. 2020. 352 pp.
This book excavates the lives and work of Black women from the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond.
Time Periods: All US History
Themes: Voting Rights, African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Women's History
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They Say I’m Your Teacher
Film. Directed by Lucy Massie Phenix and Catherine Murphy. 2019. 9 minutes.
Documentary about Citizenship Schools.
Time Periods: Cold War: 1945 - 1960
Themes: Voting Rights, African American, Education, Organizing
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Aug. 22, 1964: Sharecroppers Demand Delivery of Full Suffrage in the U.S.
Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, and the other members of the MFDP at the Democratic National Convention, questioned the nation about the lack of "one person, one vote" in the United States.
Time Periods: People’s Movement: 1961 - 1974
Themes: Voting Rights, African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Organizing
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Aug. 6, 1855: Bloody Monday
On election day, in Louisville, Kentucky, Protestant mobs attacked German and Irish Catholic neighborhoods.
Time Periods: Civil War Era: 1850 - 1864
Themes: Voting Rights, Immigration
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Jan. 22, 1964: Freedom Day in Hattiesburg
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) voting rights campaign held a Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Themes: Voting Rights, African American
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July 4, 1876: Suffragists Crash Centennial Celebration at Independence Hall
Members of the National Woman Suffrage Association crashed the Centennial Celebration at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to present the “Declaration of the Rights of Women.”
Time Periods: Reconstruction Period: 1865 - 1876, Industrial Revolution: 1877 - 1899
Themes: Voting Rights, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Organizing, Women's History
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The Voting Booth
Book - Fiction. By Brandy Colbert. 2020. 304 pages.
A novel for high school students that centers on voting rights -- weaving in a myriad of voter suppression tactics and the importance of everyone playing a role in fighting for the right to vote.
Time Periods: 21st Century
Themes: Voting Rights, African American
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