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- Civil rights protests and dilemmas
- In this lesson students explore well-known civil rights protests then listen to two oral histories of individuals who protested in their own way to promote equality for African Americans. Students specifically will consider personal risks involved in protest.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Civil rights protest chart
- Used in the Civil Rights Protests and Dilemmas lesson, in this chart students fill in basic information about famous protests of the civil rights movement and rate the risk to the protesters.
- Format: document
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Online Visitor Information Center
- Maintained by the National Park Service this web page is useful for anyone planning a trip to the King historic site in Atlanta, GA or interested in the life of the civil rights leader.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Brown versus Board of Education: Rhetoric and realities
- In this lesson, students will listen to three oral histories that shed light on political and personal reactions toward the 1954 Supreme Court ruling Brown versus Board of Education. Includes a teacher's guide as well as the oral history audio excerpts and transcripts.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Civil Rights Rally
- A large group of people stand in a parking lot in Bear Grass, North Carolina and hold a civil rights rally on December 16, 1963. Some of the people in the front row are holding signs. Five people stand before them lead the rally.
- Format: image/photograph
- Civil Rights March
- On December 16, 1963, a group of people, mostly African Americans, marched in a civil rights rally in Bear Grass, North Carolina. From the Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina.
- Format: image/photograph
- Experiences of the Civil Rights Movement: A roundtable project
- This activity allows students to participate in a roundtable discussion by taking on the persona of someone who lived and experienced the Civil Rights Movement. By participating in a role playing simulation, students are more able to achieve higher-level thinking skills and, as a result, hopefully be able to think more critically about the Civil Rights Era.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Kathleen Caldwell.
- Anti-Civil Rights Demonstration
- A young white boy holds racist a sign with his arms outstretched above protesters at an anti-civil rights demonstration in High Point, North Carolina. Another sign can be seen in the crowd. A policeman is standing below the boy.
- Format: image
- Anti-Civil Rights Protesters
- This photograph was taken at an anti-civil rights demonstration in High Point North Carolina during the 1960s. Young, white, male students stand next to a policeman and hold derogatory signs as they protest school integration.
- Format: image/photograph
- North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina during the Civil War and Reconstruction (1860–1876). Topics include debates over secession, battles and strategies, the war in North Carolina, the soldier's experience, the home front, freedom and civil rights for former slaves, Reconstruction, and the "redemption" of the state by conservatives.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- The Library of Congress identifies the men in the forefront of this photograph as Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., Washington lawyer and civil rights activist; Whitney M. Young, Jr., executive director of the National Urban League (NUL); Roy Wilkins of the National Association...
- Format: image/photograph
- The Civil Rights Movement in Context: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for the course The civil rights movement in context which investigates the precursors to the Civil Rights Movement, its leadership, its opposition, and its legacy, including lesser-studied events of the movement and primary sources.
- Format: syllabus
- Illustration of bus where Rosa Parks sat, December 1, 1955
- Format: image/diagram
- Amending the U.S. Constitution
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.8
- Text of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, passed after the Civil War to abolish slavery and to guarantee the civil rights of African Americans.
- Format: constitution
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- African Americans get the vote in eastern North Carolina
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.9
- After the Civil War, African American communities in eastern North Carolina, having already tasted freedom during the war, were ready to fight for political rights.
- Format: article
- A living timeline of civil rights
- This fifth grade lesson plan is one piece of a civil rights unit. This particular lesson is an opportunity for students to demonstrate knowledge of a specific person or event that occurred during the civil rights movement. The students will share their research with others as they take on the role of a museum artifact.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)
- By Laurie Lietz.
- Race in her lifetime
- In this lesson, students will use oral histories to trace the life of Rebecca Clark, an African American who was born in rural Orange County just before the Depression and witnessed the changes in civil rights over the years.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Everyday People Fight for Everyday Rights
- In this lesson, students will learn that the Civil Rights Movement, while led by many great individuals, was primarily a movement of everyday people. They will then put that knowledge of the past into practice and participate in their own Civil Rights March. The culminating activity is a multimedia presentation that, depending on which course, can be aimed at non-citizens outlining what civil rights are and how all Americans gained those rights through the actions of these everyday people.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Jason Perkins.
- The National City Lines bus, No. 2857, on which Rosa Parks was riding before she was arrested, is now a museum exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum.
- Format: image/photograph
- Governor Holden speaks out against the Ku Klux Klan
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 10.4
- Speech by North Carolina Governor William Woods Holden to the General Assembly, December 1869, asking for the power to declare martial law where needed to stop the violence of the Ku Klux Klan. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
