Diversity and Segregation in New Jersey School Districts 2016-17 | NJ Spotlight
Chart showing statistics on the county and district level. Is this level of segregation more or less than the south during the 1950s?
17: Civil Rights Movement
Speaks Volumes Anti Racism Activist & Educator Jane Elliot Speaks To White Citizens On Receiving - YouTube
47 second video that can serve as a "do now" for a Civil Rights lesson. Speaker asks an audience of white people if any of them would want to be treated like a black person. None of them stand
Separate Is Not Equal - Brown v. Board of Education
Smithsonian site of basic information, can be used by students for that purpose
New Jersey’s Segregated Schools Trends and Paths Forward
UCLA Civil Rights Project Report
A Look Back: Fight for Civil Rights comes to St. Augustine motel - The Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville, FL
St Augustine doesn't hold a place in the taught narrative canon but the images of Monson Hotel owner James Brock pouring acid in the pool while black kids swim should show student the extent to which integration was resisted. Note the raising of the confederate flag, for those who think of it as only a representation of history, here it is sued for something else
Talking About Race and Racism | Teaching Tolerance
Lessons to add to end of Civil Rights movement to connect to the US today. Immerses students in difficult conversations
New Jersey school segregation lawsuit: Update and video | School Diversity Notebook
Blog essay about current desegregation lawsuit in New Jersey. Included is the link to the lawsuit itself
A Look Back: 1964 civil rights protests in St. Augustine - The St. Augustine Record - St. Augustine, FL
St Augustine is not not part of the taught narrative canon of Civil Rights, but these images might help teachers teach the movement in a more authentic way. Notice the use of the "Dont Tread on Me" in segregationist imaging.
Text of Goldwater Speech on Rights - The New York Times
Barry Goldwater's explanation of why he is voting against the Civil RIghts Act of 1964
S4 E7: Freedom Summer – Scene on Radio
Exhibition (Summer 2020) : Norman Rockwell: Murder in Mississippi
Despite the common understanding of Rockwell's painting as comfortable, nostalgic impressions of an America that existed more in myth that reality, the end of his career saw a stark departure in his work. This page and video (10 min) details the story behind his painting of the murder of three Civil Rights workers in Mississippi is an innovative and uncommon approach to teaching Civil Rights
Bayard Rustin: The Man Who Organized The March On Washington : Code Switch : NPR
Students remember the The "I have a Dream" speech is more than almost any fact in their US History classes - and teachers are in part to blame. Why not show students how much effort went into planning the speech where that speech was made?
Senators Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) and Strom Thurmond (D-SC) Debate the Civil Rights Bill - The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom | Exhibitions - Library of Congress
Instead of just telling students what the Civil Rights act did, who not show them a quick three minute video of Strom Thurmond making an argument against it? "This bill is designed to appease those who riot and use mob violence to advance their agenda" Not showing students the arguments of those opposed to the Civil Rights movement results in an inauthentic view of the period
Findings on MLK Assassination | National Archives
It is unlikely that teachers and students would believe that the FBI surveilled Martin Luther King and sent him a letter in November of 1964 suggesting that he commit suicide. This statement from the investigation of his assassination saved in the National Archives might provide enough evidence to convince them
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: HIS PERSONAL CONDUCT
Teachers who dig into the history they are teaching do not have to read that far to encounter the troubling reality of the total record of the past. This is a FBI document related to incidents in Oslow Norway related to Martin Luther King's Nobel Peace Prize Award.
SCLC Financial Report, September 1964 - June 1965
One way to show students the "nut and bolts" of a movement is to include financial documents like this in a DBQ. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference had a budget of roughly $1.4 million, how did they spend that money?
FAQ – The Library of Hattiesburg Petal & Forrest County
Teachers could show this page to students and talk about how easy it is to get a library card in Hattiesburg Mississippi. Then they can tell the story of a white woman getting arrested for taking black kids down to the library in 1964 to get their library cards. The police shut down the public library rather than let black children get their library cards
Selma Online Curriculum
Series of Civil RIghts and Votings Rights lessons from Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Interactive, media intensive presentation, teacher guide included
Malcolm X | The Ballot or the Bullet
If not using the whole speech, teachers can easily use this quote to add context to the Greensboro sit in and the other non-violent protests that followed that model. Students should not that the Civil Rights movement was not monolithic . Other parts of the speech can be used to make a connection between the Civil Rights and the Cold War
Communist Agitation and Racial Turmoil - 1963 The Independent American (Pamphlet)
Teachers can either have students skim through this pamphlet or take any snippet from it to show the similarity in language used to criticize the Civil Rights Movement 1963 and BLM in 2020
Integration newspapers and newsletters | Integration of the University of Mississippi | University of Mississippi
These are college newspapers, pamphlets and other materials associated with the integration of the University of Mississippi
Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Photos and scans of hundreds of documents related to the Summer of Freedom
The Hate That Hate Produced - PART 1 - YouTube
Mike Wallace and CBS News introduced the Nation of Islam to the American public in 1959, this is a segment of that broadcast.
The Ford’s Theatre Approach to Oratory | Connecting to Text - YouTube
Want to do something different with your students? Something they have NEVER done before in history class? This is a Civil Rights unit lesson in which students perform two speeches together - the "Mountaintop" of Martin Luther King from April 3, 1968 and Robert Kennedy's speech delivered (off the top of his head) the very next day, April 4th 1968. This three minute video will get you started
AL Gov. George Wallace on Face the Nation - March 4 1965 complaining about emphasis of violence in the south
2:30 minute excerpt from Face the Nation in 1965 with George Wallace complaining about the fact that newspapers and television are focusing only on violence in the south when there are examples in the north. THis can be combined with a lesson that examines the ubiquity of racism in the United States
(1963) George Wallace, “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever”
The word "freedom" appears in this speech 16 times. Teachers can have students do a quick "Ctrl+F" on this speech and read the context of the use of the word freedom in this speech to better understand the rhetoric of resistance to integration
1967: Kerner Commission Excerpts "Our Nation Is Moving Toward Two Societies, One Black, One White--Separate and Unequal": Excerpts from the Kerner Report
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders 1967 (Kerner Commission)
There are many ways to use a 700+ page primary source document like this one - have students search the word "negro", (it appears over 400 times in the book), then ask them to pick just one or two of the instances and read the paragraph around it for context. Then have a discussion - What did they find? What did they learn? What do they want to know more about?
Interactive Map: Enrollment Data Shows Segregation Persists in NJ School System | NJ Spotlight News
Segregation in New Jersey schools, statistics and interactive map
Eyes on the Prize Study Guide
224 Page viewing guide - worth the time for any teacher showing any excerpt from the film