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Timeline of Civil Rights through American History

Lesson Author
Ohmart, Nancy
Course(s)
20th Century American History
Required Time Frame
2 class periods
Subject(s)
Civil Rights
Grade Level(s)
8
9
10
11
12
Lesson Abstract
Students will be able to identify a few relevant Civil Rights issues AND how the president of that era confronted/handled/resolved the issue, along with causes/effects; then students will reveal how many issues of the past affect their own lives today and explain how.

Description

Students will analyze primary documents/maps/cartoons/photos

Students will synthesize, in a summative format, their findings

Students will create a Google Slideshow (Civil Rights throughout the ages) to share.

Students will debrief by comparing/contrasting to their own lives today

Lesson Objectives - the student will

Analyze and evaluate primary documents relating to American Civil Rights throughout history and especially in your own town

Participate in small-group and class-wide discussion and discuss/compare/contrast their findings

Compare/contrast to their own life experiences

Extension activity:
Create a timeline with a brief summary of their primary doc/photo/etc.

District, state, or national performance and knowledge standards/goals/skills met

From the MO Show-Me Standards:

SS 2. continuity and change in the history of Missouri, the United States and the world
SS 3. principles and processes of governance systems
SS 6. relationships of the individual and groups to institutions and cultural traditions
SS 7. the use of tools of social science inquiry (such as surveys, statistics, maps, documents)

Secondary materials (book, article, video documentary, etc.) needed

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/CivilRightsAct1875.htm
1875, Grant

https://cdn.loc.gov/service/mss/maj/01068/01068_0156_0166.pdf
issue of nullification with Jackson

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/civil_rights/civil_rights.htm
LBJ and Civil Rights

https://www.nps.gov/chsc/index.htm
Little Rock Central

https://www.nps.gov/chsc/index.htm
Brown v Board of Education

Primary sources needed (document, photograph, artifact, diary or letter, audio or visual recording, etc.) needed

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/278078912

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/278080420

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/326803303
 

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/278079985

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40019879
 

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/278080378
 

https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record/ImageViewer?libID=o227506

Theodore Roosevelt
 

https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record/ImageViewer?libID=o42686&imageNo=1

Theodore Roosevelt letter from B.T. Washington

Cartoons
 

https://www.google.com/search?q=political+cartoons+over+civil+rights+in+late+1800%
cartoon about desegregation

https://www.google.com/search?safe=strict&rlz=1CAASUL_enUS850&tbm=isch&q=civil+rights+movement+political+cartoon
Eisenhower and civil rights crisis


https://www.google.com/search?safe=strict&rlz=1CAASUL_enUS850&tbm=isch&q=civil+rights+movement+political+cartoon