Grade Range: K-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 2/3/2010
With the right resources, learners of any age can engage with the topics of nonviolence and civil rights. This webpage is a gateway to lesson plans, videos, family activities, and instructional media related to the nonviolent civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The content within these resources will help students build familiarity with the civil rights movement and encourage them to think critically about civil rights in the past and today.
Featured resources include videos and a teacher guide of the Museum's award-winning Join the Student Sit-Ins program, literacy-based family activities on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the student sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina, and an archived webcast of an oral history of the three surviving members of the Greensboro Four.
Multiple activities, Multimedia instruction, Museum education
The March on Washington, August 28, 1963, was the largest civil rights demonstration the nation h...
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A fictional story with historic background and photographs depicting students during the period o...
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