Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, WorksheetsDuration: 50 MinutesDate Posted: 7/7/2008
In this classroom activity, students will create posters that will help them identify the role of Howard University as an African American cultural center, the emergence of black lawyers as civil rights leaders, the importance of the NAACP and the roles of Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall. This lesson accompanies the online exhibition entitled Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education.
Cooperative learning, Discovery learning, Museum education, Self directed groups, Teaching guides
In 1974, Boston's court-ordered busing plan became one of the most visible and controversial exam...
African American History Month, desegregation, February, black history month, civil rights, Black, Howard University, African-American, racism, Supreme Court, Houston, Charles Hamilton, Marshall, Thurgood, African American, Brown v. Board of Education, Black History, segregation, African American history, African-American History Month, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP
A fictional story with historic background and photographs depicting students during the period o...
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