Ohio Social Studies Strands
Civil Rights
Movement
Table of Contents
Section 1 – American Heritage
Section 2 – People in Society
Section 3 – World Interactions
Section 4 – Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
Section 5 – Democratic Process
Section 6 – Decision Making and Resources
Section 7 – Science, Technology and Society
Civil Rights Movement
Grade: 11th and 12th
Class: 20th Century America
Unit: Civil Rights Movement
Author: Amber Strawser
American Heritage
Activity : Read King’s
“I have a Dream Speech”
http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/
American Heritage
Identify Chamberlain’s argument in this article on
Brown vs. Board of Ed.
http://www.news.uiuc.edu/gentips/01/09edhist.html
American Heritage
Discuss how desegregation at Little Rock
Central High School changed the face of
American Education.
http://www.sjbc.org/lr.htm
American Heritage
Read some
articles on the
Little Rock
Desegregation
and determine
the views of
each.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/09/26/central.45years.ap/
http://www.ardemgaz.com/prev/central/wgaz01.html
http://www.ardemgaz.com/prev/central/wop1757.html
http://www.ardemgaz.com/prev/central/central0902a.html
American Heritage
Pretend you are a
modern day
Rosa Parks.
What would the
consequences be
today?
Why?
http://www.tsum.edu/museum/
People in Society
View this website and think on how hate and
prejudice could influence someone to kill someone
solely based on their race.
http://www.maafa.org/
Warning
This sight is
graphic and you
should find it
offensive!
People in Society
Explore the Teaching Tolerance site and
determine ways to combat prejudice.
http://www.tolerance.org/
People in Society
Try to understand why people hate and where
they learn it.
http://stop-the-hate.org/
People in Society
Create your own anti-hate poster.
Here are some examples.
http://www.stopthehate.net/gallerymain.htm
People in Society
Make a list
of of
ways
American
Culture
has
benefited
from our
African
American
citizens.
http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm
World Interactions
Compare Apartheid with the situation in
America prior to the civil rights movement.
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html
World Interactions
Look at British statistics to see that America is
not the only nation with these racial
problems.
http://www.ncrm.org.uk/deaths/index.html
World Interactions
Look at the Rwanda Civil War and write about what
would have happened had the US race relations
advanced that far.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/war/rwanda.htm
World Interactions
Read the article “Technology vs. African
Americans” and decide if you agree.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99jan/aftech.htm
World Interactions
Imagine you are a black male. Do you feel
you will be treated as well as a white male
when pulled over by a police officer?
http://archive.aclu.org/profiling/
Citizenship Rights and
Responsibilities
Write a letter or
send a form
letter to a
government
official to state
the way you
feel about an
issue. If you
don’t tell them
they won’t
know.
http://archive.aclu.org/action/dwb107.html
Citizenship Rights and
Responsibilities
Work in a group and decide your own policy on a
civil right issue of your choice.
http://archive.aclu.org/issues/racial/hmre.html
Citizenship Rights and
Responsibilities
Discuss the importance of being a registered
voter.
http://www.fairvote.org/
Citizenship Rights and
Responsibilities
If you are 18 decide if you will register to vote
and if you are not 18 download forms so
that at 18 you may register easily.
http://www.onlinedemocracy.com/
Citizenship Rights and
Responsibilities
Develop a project that will help society and
try to carry it out in your community.
http://www.darkecountyohio.com/
http://www.darke.k12.oh.us/
http://www.visitdarkecounty.org/
http://www.electionsonthe.net/oh/darke/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S__States/Ohio/Counties_and_Regions/Darke_County/
Democratic Process
Returning to Little Rock, decide whether
Governor Orval Faubus had the best interest
of the nation when he made his decision.
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/school-integration/lilrock/faubus.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAfaubus.htm
Democratic Process
Read the
constitution
and outline the
rights granted
by the
constitution
that were not
given to
African
Americans.
http://constitution.by.net/
Democratic Process
What is a lobby and what do they do?
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/g_three_sections_with_tease
rs/lobbyingdisc.htm
Democratic Process
Research and find a lobbyist group that fights
for civil rights.
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/index.asp
Democratic Process
Under the issue of profiling, useing the
Constitution and other important American
papers, form an opinion on whether
profiling is constitutional.
http://www.constitutionfacts.com/
Decision Making and Resources
http://archive.aclu.org/news/2000/n081500c.html
http://archive.aclu.org/news/n120597a.html
http://archive.aclu.org/news/n070996b.html
http://archive.aclu.org/news/w020697c.html
Looking at the above litigation, is there
equality in education?
Decision Making and Resources
What are the benefits
to making school
funding equal
across the board.
As a group decide
how you would
choose to use equal
funding to provide
equal education.
http://home.att.net/~pcbworks/TandI.html
Decision Making and Resources
Does affirmative action help African Americans
get jobs or is it just a quota system? Read these
articles and decide for yourself.
http://archive.aclu.org/library/affirmative_action99.pdf
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1996/sepoct/articles/against.html
Decision Making and Resources
Read some statistics on how much it cost to live
and try to understand why minorities have a
harder time getting the money to live.
http://www.juliannemalveaux.com/The_Cost_of_Credit.html
Decision Making and Resources
The economy is tight for all but more for
African American’s than anyone. In a
group determine three ways to change this.
http://www.nul.org/soba2001/sobasurvey.html
Science, Technology and Society
Although it is a bit juvenile it is neat, check
this site out an explore African American
inventors.
http://www.invention-express.com/openFlash.html
Science, Technology and Society
Name as many African American scientist as
you can, then check this website out and see
how few you knew.
http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html
Science, Technology and Society
This site on African American inventors is
very full of pride. Do you think an
oppressed people take more pride in their
achievements. Take your side and be
willing to debate.
http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~rlandrum/
Science, Technology and Society
Benjamin Banneker was an
inventor decades before
he had rights, are you
surprised that his
inventions were accepted
and used by white men.
http://inventorsmuseum.com/benjamin_banneker.htm
Science, Technology and Society
We got many things from George Washington
Carver. Read his biography and identify the
battles he had to fight to get where he was.
http://inventorsmuseum.com/georgecarver.htm
The End