17: Civil Rights Movement

17: Civil Rights Movement

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Civil Rights Unit - Teaching Tolerance
Civil Rights Unit - Teaching Tolerance
This offers a detailed set of curriculum improvement strategies for classroom instructors who want to apply these practices. In five discreet steps, we identify specific suggestions and procedures for building robust, meaningful lessons that cultivate a deeper understanding of modern civil rights history.
Civil Rights Unit - Teaching Tolerance
The Civil Rights Movement fraud, sham and hoax 1964 - Speech by George C. Wallace
The Civil Rights Movement fraud, sham and hoax 1964 - Speech by George C. Wallace
In this July 4th speech, George Wallace argues against the Civil Rights Bill using arguments that appear in other times in US History. This could be used to mine for DBQ excerpts or a guided reading/analysis exercise. Perhaps a continuity and change analysis with regard to the arguments he uses.
The Civil Rights Movement fraud, sham and hoax 1964 - Speech by George C. Wallace
Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet 1964
Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet 1964
Teachers can use this speech to illustrate the another side of the Civil Rights movement. It is helpful to bring attention to Malcolm X's citation of the 2nd Amendment. According to Jill Lepore, there are not many modern references to gun rights before the Black Power movement brought them to attention in the mid 1960s
Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet 1964
Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State University
Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State University
21st students may not appreciate the degree to which racist language and imagery covered the landscape of 19th and 20th century America. Exhibits at this museum are just the tip of the iceberg
Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State University
The Southern Manifesto - 1956
The Southern Manifesto - 1956
The reaction of 19 Senators and 81 members of Congress to the Brown v Board decision. Among its many assertions opposing Civil Rights is the statement "We commend the motives of thise States which have declared the intention to resist forced integration by any lawful means"
The Southern Manifesto - 1956
Teaching the Montgomery Bus Boycott — Civil Rights Teaching
Teaching the Montgomery Bus Boycott — Civil Rights Teaching
Materials to teach beyond the taught narrative canon's single-minded focus on Rosa Parks to have students explore the broader, more complex social and legal efforts of Civil Rights Leaders and 50,000 people to integrate Montgomery City Buses
Teaching the Montgomery Bus Boycott — Civil Rights Teaching
Montgomery bus boycott - Wikipedia
Montgomery bus boycott - Wikipedia
Simple lesson plan - have students look through this page and bullet list what they don't know, and what they were impressed by as they learned it (ie - leaders of the boycott had to purchase car insurance from Lloyds of London because Alabama insurance companies tried to break the boycott by denying car insurance policies to African-Americans, thereby ending the car pools that allowed them to boycott the buses)
Montgomery bus boycott - Wikipedia
In support of Clyde Sellers (Your view) - al.com
In support of Clyde Sellers (Your view) - al.com
Want to have your students act like historians? Then have them investigate the claims of the nephew of the police commissioner of Montgomery during the boycott. In this 2013 he defends his uncle - have your students investigate and fact check his claims. Don't forget to tell them to find out what was left out of the article as well
In support of Clyde Sellers (Your view) - al.com
Public Opinion Polls on Civil Rights Movement, 1961-1969
Public Opinion Polls on Civil Rights Movement, 1961-1969
Classrooms are filled with statements about what people thought, felt and believed. Thess over-generalized statements are over-inclusive, inaccurate and logically unsound. Yet they continue. Here are the results of a dozen or so public opinion polls in which people were asked about the Freedom riders, sit ins, etc. Newsflash - 61% of Americans asked said they disapproved of the Freedom Riders
Public Opinion Polls on Civil Rights Movement, 1961-1969
How Resistance to Desegregation Shaped Prince Edward County - The Atlantic
How Resistance to Desegregation Shaped Prince Edward County - The Atlantic
Sometimes the outlined, bullet point narrative won't drive home an empathetic understanding of the Civil Rights movement as well as a personal story. Teachers of Brown vs. Board are teaching less than half the story if they ignore the extent to which the white south resisted the Supreme Court's decisions. This is a great reading for students
How Resistance to Desegregation Shaped Prince Edward County - The Atlantic
Birmingham Campaign (Footage) - YouTube
Birmingham Campaign (Footage) - YouTube
This is nine minutes of footage from the children's campaign protests in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. This is raw footage, not a documentary. Note the MLK audio at 9 min - "We will wear you down by our capacity to suffer"
Birmingham Campaign (Footage) - YouTube
Citizens' Council Radio Recordings
Citizens' Council Radio Recordings
The Citizens’ Council radio Forum ran from 1957-1966 and features dozens of national and Mississippi politicians and covers topics ranging from reaction to the Civil Rights Act to the fear of Communism. This includes recordings and transcripts for most of the tapes. This collection is searchable.
Citizens' Council Radio Recordings
FBI Letter to Martin Luther King, 1964 (Letter)
FBI Letter to Martin Luther King, 1964 (Letter)
Teachers will have to do a little more research to complete the lesson built around this letter or how this letter can be included in another lesson or even just as an aside during direct instruction, but this background and the copy of the letter itself is a good place to start
FBI Letter to Martin Luther King, 1964 (Letter)
The Martin Luther King FBI file
The Martin Luther King FBI file
This is just part of a King Levison file which lists hundreds of pages of conversations gathered through surveillance and wire taps. This is the "dark-underbelly" of primary sources in that is it raw data. The transcripts are not included, but the list of visits, telephone calls and other surveillance is extensive.
The Martin Luther King FBI file
Racial Violence in the United States Since 1660 • BlackPast
Racial Violence in the United States Since 1660 • BlackPast
A listing of riots and mass lynchings in the United States - it would be interesting to post this list as part of a "do now" introductory writing activity at the start of the Civil Rights unit - What questions do you have? What can this tell us about the United States? How can we tell?
Racial Violence in the United States Since 1660 • BlackPast
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing -- broken window with faceless Jesus - (Photo)
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing -- broken window with faceless Jesus - (Photo)
Like the surviving altar in the burned Notre Dame Cathedral of 2019, events often provide an easy means to find other meaning. More important than that thought, is the fact that this is not new, not unique and only appears so for people ignorant of history. Only the face of Jesus was blown out of the stained glass in the only glass left in the 16th Avenue baptist church. What meaning can be taken from this?
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing -- broken window with faceless Jesus - (Photo)
The meaning of the Birmingham tragedy, 1963. | Pearl Digital Collections
The meaning of the Birmingham tragedy, 1963. | Pearl Digital Collections
Protestant Council of the City of New York panel discussion with James Baldwin, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Dr. Thomas C. Kilgore, Jr., focusing on the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday, September 15, 1963
The meaning of the Birmingham tragedy, 1963. | Pearl Digital Collections