Civil Rights
Movement: Heroes and Major Events
By: Barb Fuller
AHTC 2010 Summer
Institute
Abstract: Over a two to three day period students will
discuss some heroes of the Civil Rights Movement.
Essential
Questions: What is segregation?
What were Jim Crow Laws?
What are
the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
Vocabulary words: desegregation,
discrimination, integration, prejudice, racism and segregation.
Assessment: Students will present brief reports on some
heroes of the Civil Rights Movements after viewing materials of the period
after the Civil War through the 1980’s.
Setting the
Purpose: Students will review materials and write
brief reports on Civil Rights Heroes.
Analysis of local
primary sources/ ties to National: Teacher will read Kids Discover:
Civil Rights to the students.
Teacher will display Civil Rights Heroes names on the board/wall for
student to choose from. Vocabulary words
will be discussed. Students will present
reports and photos to classmates.
Student will complete (pg.18) Heroes of the Movement matching sheet;
plus (pg. 19) Civil Rights Acrostic sheet; and finally The March of History
matching activity after hearing reports presented. Students may use websites to explore about
the Movement and Heroes’ lives.
Thirteenth, 14th, and 15 th,
amendment will be discussed as a class.
Materials and
Resources:
Kids
Discover: Civil Rights
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org