Student Engagement
Examine ways that teachers have engaged young people in a study of Civil Rights Movement history and making it relevant to their lives today.
Introduction
In every section of this book and website, we have shared stories about the role of young people in the Civil Rights Movement. Young people’s hope, persistence, tenacity, joy and unyielding belief in creating change centers the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power Movement, and contemporary fights for the eradication of endemic racism in the United States.
Lessons
Readings
Films, Books, and Other Resources
Lessons and Resources
Topics and Authors
- Reading
- Lesson
- Mississippi
- Desegregation
- Education
- SNCC
- Alabama
- Deborah Menkart
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Voting Rights
- Black Power
- Labor
- Ella Baker
- Teaching Reflection
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- SCLC
- Emilye Crosby
- Poetry
- Julian Bond
- Selma
- Jenice L. View
- MFDP
- Black Panther Party
- Primary Document
- Transportation
- Teaching Idea
- Rosa Parks
- Land
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Malcolm X
- Bob Moses
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Stokely Carmichael
- Julian Hipkins III
- Vietnam War
- John Lewis
- Voting Rights Act
- Timeline
- Sit-Ins
- March on Washington
- Judy Richardson
- Amzie Moore
- Alana D. Murray
- Maggie Nolan Donovan
- Colia Liddell Lafayette Clark
- Nonviolence
- Film
- Medgar Evers
- Emmett Till
- Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
- John Hulett
- Self-Defense
- Quiz
- Bill Bigelow
- Freedom Summer
- NAACP
- Tennessee
- Allison Acosta
- Art
- Claudette Colvin
- Prisons
- SNCC Digital Gateway
- Black Lives Matter
- Amelia Boynton
- Sheyann Webb
- Herbert Lee
- Adam Sanchez
- KKK
- Clyde Kennard
- FBI
- Patty Bode
- Charles Payne
- Linda Christensen
- Stephanie Schmidt
- CORE
- Highlander
- Introduction
- E.W. Steptoe
- Georgia
- Nicolás Guillén
- James Loewen
- Arkansas
- Louis Allen
- Redlining
- Annie Devine
- New York
- SCOTUS
- North Carolina
- Kentucky
- Elementary
- Eyes on the Prize
- Allyson Criner Brown
- A. Philip Randolph
- Chris Seeger
- Coretta Scott King
- James Meredith
- Hasan Jeffries
- Charles E. Cobb Jr.
- Bayard Rustin
- Police