Lesson Plans
Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Alabama History Education Materials (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- Booker T Washington and W.E.B DuBois (Lesson plans)
- Change of View George C. Wallace (Lesson plans)
- Changing Vote (Lesson plans)
- "Child of the Civil Rights Movement" Graphic Organizer (Lesson plans)
- Civil Rights and Analyzing Characters (Lesson plans)
- Civil Rights Lesson 1 Riding the Bus Taking a Stand (Lesson plans)
- Civil Rights Lesson 2 The Opinions of the Public (Lesson plans)
- Civil Rights Lesson 3 Birmingham 1963 (Lesson plans)
- Civil Rights Lesson 4 Marching for Justice Selma to Montgomery (Lesson plans)
- Civil Rights Lesson 5 Voting Rights (Lesson plans)
- Civil Rights Part 1 Birmingham 1963 Spring Jubilation Part I (Lesson plans)
- Civil Rights Part 2 Birmingham 1963 Spring Jubilation Part II (Lesson plans)
- Civil Rights Part 3 Beyond Birmingham Summer 1963 (Lesson plans)
- Civil Rights Part 4 Birmingham Fall 1963 Fall Despair (Lesson plans)
- Civil Rights: Towards a Greater Democracy (Lesson plans)
- Claudette Colvin: A Name You Should Know (Lesson plans)
- Convict Leasing in Alabama a System that Re-Enslaved Blacks (Lesson plans)
- Deal or No Deal? (Lesson plans)
- Dueling Telegrams 1963 Verbal Power Play Between Wallace and JFK (Lesson plans)
- How Far Can You Jump? (Lesson plans)
- How Would You Feel? (Lesson plans)
- How Would You Feel The Bravery of Civil Disobedience (Lesson plans)
- Jim Crow Lived in Alabama in the late 1800's (Lesson plans)
- Life of Jesse Owens (Lesson plans)
- Marching to Equality (Lesson plans)
- Marketing a Bad Idea Why So Many People Joined the Klan in the 1920's (Lesson plans)
- Montgomery Bus Boycott We Would Rather Walk (Lesson plans)
- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (Lesson plans)
- Persuasive Writing: Helen Keller's Letter to President Hoover (Lesson plans)
- A Plan to March (Lesson plans)
- Scottsboro Boys A Trial Which Defined an Age (Lesson plans)
- Segregation in the South (Lesson plans)
- Sewing a Quilt (Lesson plans)
- Strange Fruit Lynching in America (Lesson plans)
- Transportation Segregation Laws of the early 1900's (Lesson plans)
- Two Different African American Visions Du Bois and Washington (Lesson plans)
- Voter Registration Prior to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Lesson plans)
- Voting Rights for African-Americans (Lesson plans)
- W.E.B. Du Bois Booker T Washington and Jim Crow Lesson (Lesson plans)
- What Makes an Olympian? (Lesson plans)
- What's Going On? The Selma-to-Montgomery March (Lesson plans)
- What's Your Story? (Lesson plans)
- Women of the Civil Rights Movement (Lesson plans)
- The Wrong Side of History How One Group Justified Its Opposition to the Freedom Riders (Lesson plans)
Educator Resources
- California Cultures (Online Archive of California)
- Civil Rights -- Florida Humanities Council (Florida Humanities Council)
- Civil Rights Movement & Its Leaders (C-SPAN)
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy of Racial and Social Justice (National Park Service)
- For Educators (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
- The Civil Rights movement: Evaluating Lyndon B. Johnson's character and efforts during the civil rights era (Instructional materials)
- The Civil Rights movement: First day of integration at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas; photo and first-hand account from Elizabeth Eckford's perspective (Instructional materials)
- The Civil Rights movement: The promise of democracy; JFK's radio and television report to the American people on civil rights, June 11, 1963 (Instructional materials)
- Freedom Riders: The Children Shall Lead (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
- A House Divided Teaching Guide (Southern Institute for Education and Research)
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries)
- Living the Story: The Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky (Kentucky Educational Television)
- Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Cartoon Research Library (Ohio State University))
- Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching (Teaching for Change)
- Road trip! through SC Civil Rights history (1940s - 1970s) (South Carolina Educational Television Commission)
- Teaching with Historic Places (National Park Service)
- An American success story : The Pope House of Raleigh, NC (Instructional materials)
- Brown v. Board : five communities that changed America (Instructional materials)
- Chicago's black metropolis : understanding history through a historic place (Instructional materials)
- From Canterbury to Little Rock : the struggle for educational equality for African Americans (Instructional materials)
- Iron Hill School : an African-American one-room school (Instructional materials)
- New Kent School and the George W. Watkins School : from freedom of choice to integration (Instructional materials)
- The Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March : Shaking the Conscience of the Nation (Instructional materials)
- Unsung Foot Soldiers : The Foot Soldier Project for Civil Rights Studies at the University of Georgia (Foot Soldier Project for Civil Rights Studies at the University of Georgia)
- Veterans of Hope Project (Veterans of Hope Project)