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University of Virginia

Virginia Center for Digital History: Television News of the Civil Rights Era

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich collection of streaming video samples of television news footage from 1950 to 1970, along with an assortment of primary source documents, first-person accounts, a glossary of terms, and essays and analysis for learning about the...
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Other

Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya: Mahatma Gandhi Information Website

For Students 9th - 10th
A very rich site devoted to Mohandas Gandhi. It includes extensive biographical information, his philosophy, many photos, articles and essays. There are tributes, reminiscences, speeches, prayers, his family tree, and much much more.
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Other

African National Congress: Resistance and Negotiation [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A scholarly discussion of Gandhi's strategy of passive resistance for the people of South Africa in their struggle for equal rights.
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Other

Historical Thinking Matters: Rosa Parks: Intro

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Extensive teaching aid to help students understand the Montgomery Bus Boycott using primary sources such as letters, police reports, leaflets, and speeches. Includes many student activities and resources.
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Lesson Plan
United Nations

United Nations Cyberschoolbus: Peace Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
There are five teaching units on peace education on this site, ranging for ages 8 to 14+. Topics cover ecological awareness, tolerance, social justice, global citizenship, etc. There are many links in the resource area for United Nations...
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PBS

The March on Washington and Its Impact : Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about the social conditions in the United States that led up to the Civil Rights Movement. Also, explore peaceful resistance and the immediate impact of the march.
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NBC

Nbc Learn: Finishing the Dream: 1960 1962: Freedom Fighters

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of archival video clips covering protests against racial segregation in the United States in the period 1960-1962. Features clips on the Greensboro sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counters, Freedom Riders who fought bus...
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Stanford University

Stanford University: Lesson Plan on the Montgomery Bus Boycott

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A comprehensive five part lesson plan that teaches student how to use what happend in the famous bus boycott for both content knowledge and also how to apply to other social movements. The role of Rosa Parks is examined in detail.
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Contesting Futures: America in 1960s: Civil Rights Movement Marches On

For Students 11th - 12th
An examination of the civil rights movement of African Americans in the 1960s. Discusses the different forms of protest, the influence of Martin Luther King, Jr., the rise of Black Power, the Black Panthers, and Malcolm X. This is...
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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Congressman John R. Lewis

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of John R. Lewis, one of the leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement. He participated in pivotal resistance campaigns such as the Freedom Rides and the March on Washington, and went on the serve in the United States...
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Other

Montgomery Bus Boycott: They Changed the World

For Students 9th - 10th
This very informative site provides everything about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Includes an interactive timeline, video clips, biographies of the leaders, interviews of people involved, archived newspaper articles, and an entire section...
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Martin Luther King

For Students 3rd - 8th
This article gives a brief overview of the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. while discussing the concept of non-violent resistance.
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Other

Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement: The Sit Ins

For Students 9th - 10th
Find photographs of many of the sit-ins at lunch counters in stores in the South to protest "whites only" laws. Each photo has information about the sit-ins and the results.
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Other

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi/man of Millennium

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge site of resources on the life of Gandhi from 1869 to 1948. Includes his writings, his work, his teachings, his philosophy and an extensive timeline of events in his life.
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Website
Other

New York Public Library: Africana Age: The Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an extensive review of the Civil Rights movement from the 1940s to the 1960s. Read about the ways African Americans protested discrimination in employment and education over several years. Be sure to click on the images to find...
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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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Other

Helium: The History of Apartheid in South Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Apartheid in South Africa, and what the main reasons were that worked toward it coming to an end. Very informative information.
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Article
Other

Time, Inc.: Martin Luther King Jr.: Never Again Where He Was

For Students 9th - 10th
Original article text from Time Magazine, January 3, 1964, in which Martin Luther King, Jr. was featured as "Man of the Year."
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Other

The King Center: Albany Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
A must see site relating to the Albany Movement. A turbulant time during American history, the Albany movement was a regional nonviolent protest movement in southwestern Georgia formed by representatives of several local and national...
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Article
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: The Civil Rights Movement: 1919 1960s

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides an overview of the Civil Rights Movement in America between 1919 and the 1960s with detailed discussion on racial equality, nonviolence and passive resistance, and segregation.
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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Social Media and Non Violent Protest

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan tackles the turbulent events in Egypt and other Middle East countries by asking students to examine political cartoons and understand how social and traditional media served as a tool for the nonviolent protests. February, 2011
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Black Power

For Students 5th - 8th
The black power movement moved away from the nonviolence advocated by Martin Luther King, Jr. and his associates. Read about the formation of the Black Panther Party, and find their party platform. Take the brief quiz about history of...
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Other

Teachable Moment: Behind the Egyptian Uprising: A Strategic Youth Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is primarily a lesson plan, but the reading from The Nation is important in gathering an understanding about how the Egyptian revolution of 2011 actually came to pass. Students can also consider the quotes from Gandhi that are...
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: How Cesar Chavez Joined Larry Itliong to Demand Farm Workers' Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
In the late 1960s, grapes grabbed national attention -- and not in a good way. Newly organized farm workers, fronted by Mexican-American civil-rights activist Cesar Chavez, asked Americans to boycott the popular California fruit because...

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