History Explorer Results (23)
Related Books (13)
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials, Interactives & Media
A topical collection featuring African-American leaders, inventors, activists, sports figures, and culture-shapers whose lives changed history. These stamps are part of the Black Heritage Stamp Series. U.S. postage stamps were in use for nearly a century before Booker T. Washington became t
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Reference Materials, Primary Sources, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
Popular athletes can reflect the broader societal change that is going on around them; they can also be instigators of that change. This collection traces the African-American civil rights movement through the 20th century and touches on athletes like Jack Johnson, Jackie Robinson, and Muhammad A
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Reference Materials, Primary Sources, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s tackled many problems facing African-Americans at the time. This collection offers a brief video introduction into the March on Washington in 1963, which brought national attention to many of these issues, and asks students to analyze a photograph
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Interactives & Media
In this series of interviews, member of the Greensboro Four Joseph McNeil talks about what motivated him to participate and shares a message for young people on being involved in their communities.
Resource Type(s):
Interactives & Media
In this series of three short videos, civil rights activist and former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee staffer Larry Rubin speaks about his experiences in Mississippi during 1964 Freedom Summer and at the March on Washington in 1963. He shares the affect of the disappearances of Michael
Resource Type(s):
Interactives & Media, Worksheets
Freedom Summer veteran Courtland Cox discusses his work in the civil rights movement, the relationship between the work of Freedom Summer and the recent voter registration requirements, and emphasizes that the challenge of this generation of young people will be the fight for equal access to qual
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Interactives & Media
Civil rights legend Robert Moses, Marshall Ganz, activist and professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, students, and others participated in a panel discussion about Freedom Summer, the 1964 youth-led effort to end the political disenfranchisement and educational inequa
In this episode of the History Explorer podcast, students can hear from civil rights activist Zoharah Simmons about her experiences in the 1964 Freedom Summer project. This interview is from a program presented at the Museum in 2000 called Fighting for My Rights. The
Resource Type(s):
Primary Sources, Interactives & Media, Worksheets
In this episode of the History Explorer podcast series, hear activist and Mississippi native June Johnson discuss her work in the civil rights movement, including during Mississippi Freedom Summer. Johnson was a teenager when she became active in the movement, and worked alongside Fannie Lo
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Lessons & Activities
These three activities are designed as follow-up materials for the National Youth Summit on Freedom Summer, but can be modified for any content.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
Informative children's book about the underground railroad.
Author:
Freddi Williams Evans
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
A story based on real events of a community that works together to gain civil rights.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
Collection of African-American folktales from Africa, the Caribbean, and South America.
Reading Level:
High School
Accounts of African-American's civil rights struggle from the Civil War to present.
Author:
Joyce Carol Thomas
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
The story of a brave African-American woman in her pursuit of pioneering a home.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
An illustrated biography and chronology of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement era.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
A picture-book biography of the first African-American First Lady.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
An emotional Civil War story about two soldiers who become friends.
Reading Level:
High School,Adult
Carson, director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers, has pieced together an incomplete study of King's life by supplementing his extant autobiographies (e.g., Stride Toward Freedom and Where Do We Go from Here) with previously unpublished and published writings, interviews and speeches.
