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A Pivotal Moment in the Civil Rights Movement: The Murder of Emmett Till- Lesson 1
Lesson One: The Story of Emmett Till—Students are introduced to the murder of Emmett Till through watching an excerpt from the “Awakenings” segment of the Eyes on the Prize video series. Then they ...
Education and Civil Rights: School Desegregation in Boston
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Education and Civil Rights: School Desegregation in Boston
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The civil rights movement is often taught as a Southern phenomenon. Yet, the struggle for racial justice ...
Boston Public Schools Civil Rights Curriculum
The three units we have developed require students to "do" history—to gather evidence from primary documents, use that evidence to make claims about the past, and then apply what they learn to thei...
Education and Civil Rights: School Desegregation in Boston- Lesson 4
In this lesson, students will watch an excerpt from the Eyes on the Prize video series that documents reactions to Judge Garrity’s ruling ordering the mandatory busing of Boston students from South...
A Pivotal Moment in the Civil Rights Movement: The Murder of Emmett Till- Lesson 4
Lesson Four asks students to evaluate the relative significance of these factors and to make some claims about how they interacted.
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Lesson 2 - Timeline of Civi
Lesson 2 – Timeline of Major Civil Rights Events VT Standards: Objectives: Students create an original, hand-drawn timeline of major civil rights era events. Timelines will be made to a determined ...
Lesson 3
Lesson #3 16th St Baptist Church goal: to understand the events centered around and organized at the 16th St Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama Task #1 Read the following to familiarize yourself...
Education and Civil Rights: School Desegregation in Boston
unIt 3/ IntroductIon
Education and Civil Rights: School Desegregation in Boston
rationale
The civil rights movement is often taught as a Southern phenomenon. Yet, the struggle for racial justice ...
Nonviolence as a Tool for Change: The March for Voting Rights
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Nonviolence as a Tool for Change: The March for Voting Rights
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Recent studies report that the demographic group in the United States with the lowest voter turnout i...
Education and Civil Rights: School Desegregation in Boston- Lesson 4
In this lesson, students will watch an excerpt from the Eyes on the Prize video series that documents reactions to Judge Garrity’s ruling ordering the mandatory busing of Boston students from South...
Education and Civil Rights: School Desegregation in Boston- Lesson 3
This lesson reveals the de jure causes of school segregation that provided the basis for the discrimination case against the school committee.
Education and Civil Rights: School Desegregation in Boston- Lesson 2
In this lesson, students learn about the root of Boston’s school segregation— residential segregation.
Education and Civil Rights: School Desegregation in Boston- Lesson 1
Students begin this lesson by thinking about the concept of education as a civil right—as something that the government is obligated to provide “to all on equal terms.” This understanding lays the...
Nonviolence as a Tool for Change: The March for Voting Rights- Lesson 4
By having students connect what they know about the history of voting rights to current voting data, this lesson encourages students to think more deeply about the distinctions between voting as a ...
Nonviolence as a Tool for Change: The March for Voting Rights- Lesson3
In this lesson, students will draw on their understanding of voter discrimination and the philosophy of nonviolence as they watch an excerpt from the Eyes on the Prize video series, which documents...
Nonviolence as a Tool for Change: The March for Voting Rights- Lesson2
In this lesson, students develop an understanding of the theory that was most influential in guiding the actions of civil rights protesters in the South in the 1960s: the philosophy of nonviolence.
Nonviolence as a Tool for Change: The March for Voting Rights- Lesson1
This lesson focuses students’ attention on primary source documents that juxtapose the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment with the reality for black citizens living in the South.
A Pivotal Moment in the Civil Rights Movement: The Murder of Emmett Till- Lesson 4
Lesson Four asks students to evaluate the relative significance of these factors and to make some claims about how they interacted.
A Pivotal Moment in the Civil Rights Movement: The Murder of Emmett Till- Lesson3
In this lesson, students will explore primary documents in order to learn more about the historical context of Emmett Till’s murder.
A Pivotal Moment in the Civil Rights Movement: The Murder of Emmett Till- Lesson 2
Lesson two deepen students understanding of the murder of Emmett Till by introducing aspects of the historical context that influenced the decisions made by individuals involved in this event.
A Pivotal Moment in the Civil Rights Movement: The Murder of Emmett Till
In 1955, a 14-year-old African American teenager was brutally murdered by white men while visiting relatives in Mississippi. His name was Emmett Till. His murder and the subsequent trial of his acc...
A Pivotal Moment in the Civil Rights Movement: The Murder of Emmett Till- Lesson 1
Lesson One: The Story of Emmett Till—Students are introduced to the murder of Emmett Till through watching an excerpt from the “Awakenings” segment of the Eyes on the Prize video series. Then they ...
Boston Public Schools Civil Rights Curriculum
The three units we have developed require students to "do" history—to gather evidence from primary documents, use that evidence to make claims about the past, and then apply what they learn to thei...
