Preparation Information
Students will read the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights, with a special emphasis on the 1st Amendment Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Speech and the Freedom to gather peacefully and protest.
Students will then view the essays and photos that will detail how racial discrimination was enforced throughout American history.
Students will then view the biographies of prominent civil rights leaders throughout American history, which includes Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, the Tuskegee Airmen, Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, John Lewis, Medgar Evers, Shirley Chisholm and others. These biographies include photo essays and
feature streaming video where the students can investigate the lives of these civil rights leaders to the fullest extent possible. Moreover, students have the option to pick and choose the civil rights leader of their choice as they proceed, either chronologically or in any order they wish to study these leaders, as long as they study them all by the end of the Civil Rights Movement study on this Curriculum Web.