Curated OER
Laws of Civil Rights
Students investigate the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In this segregation lesson, students explore the rights that were guaranteed by the legislation as well as attempts by southerners to stop African Americans from voting. Students...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the most important, passionate, and powerful voices of the civil and voting rights movements .
University of California
The History Project: Ideology of the New Left
The early 1960s saw a rising tide of criticism of American society, mainly by college students. They criticized repression, corruption and racism as basic flaws in the entire structure of American government and society. This lesson plan...
Other
Civil Rights Documentation Project: 1964: Freedom Summer
Read a brief description of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project and listen to the comments of some of the civil rights activists who participated in the project in 1964.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Freedom Summer
A learning module that begins with the poem "Freedom Summer" by J. Patrick Lewis accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Travel Places of the Civil Rights Movement
This site provides a list of historic places of the Civil Rights Movement, complete with an itinerary and a map. Clicking on a place on the map will give information about that place.
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Teachers Visit the Leflore County Courthouse in Greenwood, Miss
This All Things Considered archive article for August 6, 2004 looks at the summer of 1964, when more than 1,000 civil rights workers came to Mississippi to help register black voters.