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Worksheet
Curated OER

Civil Rights: 1964

For Students 7th - 8th
In this civil rights:  1964 learning exercise, students read a paragraph then answer eight comprehension questions about the passage.
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Article
Hartford Web Publishing

World History Archives: Sncc Fought for Change From the Bottom Up

For Students 9th - 10th
A highly informative narrative on the development and philosophy of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, with comparisons to Dr. King's SCLC and the Black Panther Party. Good resource.
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Website
Other

Civil Rights Movement Veterans

For Students 9th - 10th
Remembrances of Civil Rights Movement workers who were active in the 1960s and '70s. Excellent site to gauge the impact of the movement on the workers themselves. Information about the Movement with eyewitness stories, poetry,...
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Primary
US National Archives

Our Documents: Official Program for March on Washington(1963)

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a copy of the original program for the March on Washington that featured Martin Luther King. Provides a summary of the civil rights movement at that time.
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Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

For Students 9th - 10th
This ibiblio.org site gives the six-year history of this college based group that supported the civil rights movement and tells of its nonviolent philosophy.
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Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

For Students 9th - 10th
Two months after the Greensboro sit-ins, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed to coordinate the sit-ins and other forms of social activism against white oppression.
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Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Julian Bond

For Students 9th - 10th
Informative biography of one of the founding leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a leading civil rights group of the 1960s.
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Lesson Plan
University of California

The History Project: Ideology of the New Left

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Sit in Movement

For Students 4th - 8th
Just like the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the first sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter was the beginning of a nonviolent movement to challenge "white only" laws. Read about how the sit-in movement spread across the South. See how...
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Activity
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: The First March From Selma

For Students 3rd - 8th
This article details a key event in the civil rights struggle--the demonstration organized by the Rev. Martin Luther King in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965, when 525 people met a police blockade on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
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Handout
A&E Television

Biography: Julian Bond (1940 2015)

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a biography of civil rights activist Julian Bond.
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Handout
Black Past

Black Past: Adams, Victoria Jackson Gray

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief encyclopedia article tells about Victoria Gray Adams, a leading member of the civil rights movement in Mississippi. It includes links to websites containing her collection of papers.
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Handout
Black Past

Black Past: Carmichael, Stokely

For Students 9th - 10th
In this brief encyclopedia entry you can read about Stokely Carmichael's role in the civil rights movement and his proclamation of "Black Power."
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Handout
Black Past

Black Past: Lowndes County Freedom Org.

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia entry details the beginnings of the Black Panther Party which grew from the Lowndes County Freedom Organization in Alabama.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Hear Julian Bond Talk About the Formation of Sncc

For Students 9th - 10th
Informative biography of one of the founding leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a leading civil rights group of the 1960s.