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Black Past

Black Past: Abernathy, Ralph

For Students 9th - 10th
In this encyclopedia entry you can read a brief account of Ralph Abernathy's part in the civil rights movement. There is a link to a website for more information.
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Black Past

Black Past: Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. (1941 )

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a profile of Jesse Jackson and his efforts in the civil rights movement.
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abcteach

Abcteach: People

For Teachers 1st - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Print worksheets from biographies and autobiographies from famous people such as Sally Ride, Clara Barton, Abraham Lincoln, Francis Scott Key, Alexander the Great and many more.
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Other

Civil Rights Teaching

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Online companion to the book "Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching", but many useful resources for any classroom.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Service Pioneers [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students learn how civil rights pioneer Ruby Bridges and Congressman John Lewis helped to improve their communities.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Actions Speak Louder [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, learners examine the role of the media in promoting a service project. They will create relevant media materials, implement a service project and then reflect on the results.
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Other

The Latter Rain: Liberation Theology

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives an explaination of the term "Liberation Theology." It explains that liberation theology is the prophetic response to oppression. Includes quotations from Martin Luther King Jr., and the Bible.
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Alabama Humanities Foundation

Encyclopedia of Alabama: History: Fred Lee Shuttlesworth

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated encyclopedia entry for Alabama-born Fred Shuttlesworth, who, as an ally of Martin Luther King, Jr., worked tirelessly against racial inequality and for civil rights in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Montgomery Bus Boycott

For Students 9th - 10th
A page exploring the history of the Montgomery Bus Boycott that started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Learn about how this was led by Martin Luther King, Jr., African-Americans stopped riding the buses...
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: African American Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the history of the African-American Civil Rights Movement including segregation, Jim Crow laws, protests, Martin Luther King, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act on this site.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Civil Rights Act of 1964

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the history of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 including the background and work by leaders such as President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon Johnson, and Martin Luther King, Jr on this site.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Fred Shuttlesworth

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Fred Shuttlesworth, an American minister and civil rights activist who established, with Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and who...
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Bayard Rustin

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information on Bayard Rustin, African-American civil rights activist who was a close adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Culture & Change, Evolution of Black History

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explore the Black History in America in the lives of famous African Americans. Features include a clickable interactive timeline that highlights important events, accomplishments, and personalities from 1492 to 2001.
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Stanford University

Mlk and the Global Freedom Struggle: Albany Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia entry examines the Albany Movement, a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Ga. in 1961 with the purpose of ending all forms of racial segregation in the city.
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Website
Bryn Mawr College

Core: Montgomery Bus Boycott

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, a year-long boycott of city buses that eventually brought an end to segregated seating on public buses in the south.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing" by Jessica Mc Birney

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with "The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing" by Jessica McBirney, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Website
Curated OER

National Park Service: Travel Places of the Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Handout
CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: The Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of 34 Grade-Leveled texts (4-12)on the topic The Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement emerged after nearly a century of little progress for African Americans following the end of slavery. Explore the...
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eBook
Digital History

Digital History: The March on Washington

For Students 9th - 10th
In August 1963, more than 200,000 people marched from the Washington Memorial to the Lincoln Memorial for civil rights. Read about that day in this brief article.
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Article
Digital History

Digital History: Birmingham, Alabama: Bombingham

For Students 9th - 10th
The city that best exemplifies white resistance to integration and the tension and conflict of the civil rights movement is Birmingham, Alabama. Learn about events of and reactions to the civil rights movement of the early 1960s in...
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Article
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

For Students 9th - 10th
Rosa Parks started a revolution by refusing to give up her seat on a bus. Read about the Montgomery bus boycott, and see how the nonviolent actions of supporters of the Civil Rights movement succeeded in using the boycott to inspire more...
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Sclc)

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts and a summary on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed as a Civil Rights non-violent protest group in 1957.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Article details important people, places, and events in the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s and 1960s.

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