17: Civil Rights Movement

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Boston Before Busing – A Multimedia Exhibition Exploring Education Civil Rights in Boston from 1960-1974

Digital presentation of essays, primary source documents and timeline of events associated with the segregation in Boston schools. These materials might be more appropriate for NJ students to expose them to the northern dynamic of public school segregation

Boston Before Busing – A Multimedia Exhibition Exploring Education Civil Rights in Boston from 1960-1974

John F. Kennedy's 1963 Televised Address to the Nation on Civil Rights - YouTube

At the 17;40 minute mark of this video the Governor of Georgia is asked about his reaction to George Wallace's standing in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama and he explains that it is his view that Wallace (and Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi) are wrong to defy the 6th article of the Constitution. It would be worthwhile to show this to students to show that there is a difference of opinion in the south

John F. Kennedy's 1963 Televised Address to the Nation on Civil Rights - YouTube

Black family tried to move to all-White neighborhood in Rosedale, Queens (1976) - HARD TO WATCH - YouTube

Teachers should not use this in class without some very careful editing. WIth that warning however, this should absolutely be used to show students that segregation and racism was not a only a southern problem, but an American problem. The vivid aggressiveness of this video has an emotional payload that can't be matched by static black and white photographs.

Black family tried to move to all-White neighborhood in Rosedale, Queens (1976) - HARD TO WATCH - YouTube

"New Kids in the Neighborhood (Negro in the Suburb)" - Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) — Google Arts & Culture

For use as a discussion or writing prompt or in connection with a test question

"New Kids in the Neighborhood (Negro in the Suburb)" - Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) — Google Arts & Culture

Whose Law?: State Sovereignty and the Integration of the University of Alabama | JFK Library

Latino Action Network et al v. State of New Jersey - The Inclusion Project

Archives Photograph Collection - Will Counts

Will Counts was a photographer nearly his entire life, and for 32 years served as a Professor of Journalism at Indiana University. He worked for the Arkansas-Democrat in Little Rock, Arkansas, and The Associated Press in Chicago, but is well known for the photographs he shot of desegregation at Little Rock's Central High School in 1957

Archives Photograph Collection - Will Counts

Muhammad Ali - Racial Integration - YouTube

If any teacher wants to make a class discussion about race incredibly difficult, this 3.5 minute clip will do it. In it. Muhammad Ali makes a case against what was previously called miscegenation

Muhammad Ali - Racial Integration - YouTube

How segregated are New Jersey's schools and what can be done about it?

Although this news site is overgrown with ads and pop-ups this article may be useful for teachers hoping to impress upon students the desegregation in NJ Schools.

How segregated are New Jersey's schools and what can be done about it?

NJ Coalition for Diverse and Inclusive Schools (NJCDIS) | United Methodist Church of Greater New Jersey

New Jersey has among the most segregated public schools in the entire county

NJ Coalition for Diverse and Inclusive Schools (NJCDIS) | United Methodist Church of Greater New Jersey

Microsoft Word - Brown 65 050819v4_without_figures for formatting cover 2.docx

We teach about segregation during the Civil Rights movement, this data shows that it still exists. Furthermore, it shows that schools are more segregated in the north than the south

Microsoft Word - Brown 65 050819v4_without_figures for formatting cover 2.docx

Home - Robert Russa Moton Museum

16 Year old Barbara Johns led a student boycott of the Robert Russa Morton High School in 1951, demanding that a new school be built for African Americans. Her case was one of the four collected into the Board V Board case

Home - Robert Russa Moton Museum

The 70th Anniversary of the Moton School Walkout - Virginia Humanities

Led by a 16 year old who is, although acknowledged in Virginia, is not even noticed by the taught narrative canon

The 70th Anniversary of the Moton School Walkout - Virginia Humanities

Teen Activists | BackStory with the American History Guys

Story of Barbara Johns and the 1951 boycott of her high school in Virginia - and how that became part of the Brown V Board Car

Teen Activists | BackStory with the American History Guys

Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 – The Public Domain Review

Primary source images of the Tulsa Massacre of 1921

Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 – The Public Domain Review

Latino Action Network et al v. State of New Jersey - The Inclusion Project

How many New Jersey High school teachers talk to their students about Brown v. Board and Little Rock High School without talking about the segregation in their own state? This lawsuit provides materials to do just that

Latino Action Network et al v. State of New Jersey - The Inclusion Project

Civil Rights: Citizens' Letters on the Little Rock Crisis | Eisenhower Presidential Library

Instead of giving students just two or three primary source documents give them a set like this and have them analyze, and categorize them as historians would.

Civil Rights: Citizens' Letters on the Little Rock Crisis | Eisenhower Presidential Library

Albert Woodfox, who spent nearly 44 years in solitary confinement, dies : NPR

Students should know of this story. Any elementary school lesson about "wants and needs" could benefit as well.

Albert Woodfox, who spent nearly 44 years in solitary confinement, dies : NPR

Making the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 – The JFK Library Archives: An Inside Look

Several primary sources in here worth a look

Making the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 – The JFK Library Archives: An Inside Look

Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968) - Flashbak

Charlie Brown is an iconic comic book character known to almost all teachers and students, though the comic strip itself has a deep history. Within that history in the process through which a Black child was introduced to the comic strep in 1968

Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968) - Flashbak

Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Situation in Little Rock. | The American Presidency Project

Eisenhower's televised speech in September of 1957 is a firm declaration in defense of the rule of law. Although delivered in the early stages of the Civil Rights movement, these words have a certain applicability to the 2020s

Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Situation in Little Rock. | The American Presidency Project

Mothers' League of Central High School - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

This mother's group opposed the integration of Central High school in Little Rock. Teachers may notice the similarity to the "Moms of Liberty" of the 2020s

Mothers' League of Central High School - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

The Montgomery Story (comic book)

Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story is a 16-page comic book about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery bus boycott published in 1957 by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR USA). It advocates the principles of nonviolence and provides a primer on nonviolent resistance. Although ignored by the mainstream comics industry, it was widely distributed among civil rights groups, churches, and schools. It helped inspire nonviolent protest movements around the Southern United States, and later in Latin America, South Africa,the Middle East, and elsewhere.

The Montgomery Story (comic book)

Harry S. Ashmore of Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, AR - The Pulitzer Prizes

As much as students need to be exposed to the the hatred of segregationists in Little Rock, they also need to see the upstanders who took risks by opposing segregation. This is a small collection of editorials published by the Arkansas Gazette that won a pultizer prize in 1958.

Harry S. Ashmore of Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, AR - The Pulitzer Prizes

Memorial service for James Chaney - American Archive of Public Broadcasting

This is a primary source that stretches the imagination to even be in existence, much less accessible to students and teachers of US History

Memorial service for James Chaney - American Archive of Public Broadcasting

Viola Liuzzo Memorial Marker - Encyclopedia of Alabama

There are many, many forgotten names in the Civil Rights movement that never made it to the taught narrative canon. Teachers can just grab the picture of this monument marker and be given five minutes to learn more about Viola. A simple intro activity to a larger lesson, the process could yield in them a better understanding of the wide spectrum of individuals who were part of the movement

Viola Liuzzo Memorial Marker - Encyclopedia of Alabama

Two Versions of John Lewis' Speech | BillMoyers.com

Instead of doing the "I Have a Dream" speech again (AGAIN), teachers should split their classes and give each half a different version of this speech without telling them the back story - then haven the compare and contrast discussion before telling the about it

Two Versions of John Lewis' Speech | BillMoyers.com