Civil Rights Movement Essential Questions
- What lessons can we learn from – and what lessons can we teach about – the Civil Rights Movement?
- How did (and do) people affect change in the Civil Rights Movement?
- To what extent has Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “dream” been realized?
- What does the Civil Rights Movement tell us about America?
- How is the Civil Rights Movement still unfolding?
- How do primary sources tell the story of the Civil Rights Movement?
Learning and Teaching the Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement: Why Now?
Five Lessons from Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement | Reimagine!
What We Can Learn from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
What Can Students Learn from the Civil Rights Movement? @ NBC Learn
Civil Rights Poetry
Civil Rights Movement Poetry
What are the Words of the Wiser in each of these ten poems? What is the life lesson or the lesson learned in each of these ten poems?
How do these poems speak to the issues, ideals, questions, emotions, events, and stories of the Civil Rights Movement as you know it? Tap into your background knowledge.
How do these poems speak to the idea of equality?
Note that while these poems may speak to or reflect the Civil Rights Movement in some way, they are not necessarily written or published during that era. (We’ve read Hughes and Cullen before, for example, haven’t we?)
CRM in Short Stories and Music
“LIARS DON’T QUALIFY” BY JUNIUS EDWARDS
Civil Rights Era Protest Songs
THE MUSIC OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
“People Get Ready”: Music and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s
Civil Rights Movement Links
Civil Rights Resource Guide @ LoC
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement @ LoC
Civil Rights Movement @ history.com
Civil Rights Movement @JFK Presidential Library and Museum
Southern Freedom Movement Documents 1951-1968
Excellent and entertaining podcast on the March on Washington from Stuff You Should Know
Very interesting podcast on policing and race, featuring MPD.
American Stories Rule! 