Fifth Grade Social Studies
Looking at Unit 8
Overcoming the Past:
The Age of Civil Rights
March 10, 2009
Importance of Technology
• Television & space exploration (H8d)
• Importance of visual imagery:
– During WWII, people saw footage in newsreels
– During Vietnam & the Civil Rights Movement, people
saw footage in television – in their living rooms
– Beginning of nearly-immediate access to information
Thurgood Marshall
• http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/marshallthrgd
• http://www.oyez.org/justices/thurgood_marshall/
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/tre
asures/images/tlc0240.jpg
http://www.historicaldocume
nts.com/ThurgoodMarshalle
tal.jpg
http://www.supremeco
urthistory.org/02_histor
y/subs_timeline/image
s_associates/082.html
Rosa Parks
• Student interview with Mrs. Parks shortly before her 1995 death:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/interview.htm#brave
• Detroit News’s coverage of Mrs. Parks’s life:
http://www.detnews.com/2005/specialreport/0510/25/index.htm
• Rosa Parks Library & Museum in Montgomery, AL:
http://montgomery.troy.edu/rosaparks/museum/
http://www.princeton.edu/~bsu/New
%20Pictures/Rosa%20Parks.jpg
http://www.congressionalgoldme
dal.com/images/RosaParksFro
mAlGore.gif
http://www.achievement.org/achie
vers/par0/large/par0-003.jpg
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The King Papers Project @ Stanford:
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/
• Kid-Friendly MLK Biography from the Library of
Congress: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/king
• Slide Show from later in MLK’s life at Scholastic:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/mlk/news/index.asp?article=previews#
• Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site:
http://www.nps.gov/malu/
• The King Center for Non-Violent Social Change:
http://www.thekingcenter.org/
Protest Movements
•Why is this
image
significant?
* What events
does it tie
together?
• Image: http://crmvet.org/images/imgstrug.htm - cotton
pickers on strike in Orangeburg, SC in 1963
Protest Movements
•Why is this
image
significant?
* What do you
notice about
the people in
the image?
Image: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/haventohome/timeline/images/_cards/1970_075_card.jpg
Taken in 1965
What do people in Vietnam today
call this conflict?
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/vietnamphotos/images/marines-on-tank.gif
•Who’s Who of the Vietnam conflict:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/viet
nam/whos/index.html
•Timeline of US involvement
(teacher reference:
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps
/vietnam/timeline.htm
•Information for teachers (from a
Vietnam Veterans’ Organization) &
a “virtual Wall”:
http://www.teachvietnam.org/
•Photographic story of the conflict
from the National Archives:
http://www.archives.gov/education/l
essons/vietnam-photos/.
Brown v. Board of Education
• Complete text of Brown ruling (for exposure – not as a reading
lesson): http://www.nationalcenter.org/brown.html
• Actual document: http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/doccontent/images/brown-v-board-of-education-m.jpg
• Contemporary articles from the Topeka, Kansas Capitol-Journal,
as well as coverage of the 50th anniversary of the ruling:
http://www.cjonline.com/indepth/brown/
» http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/features.jsp?p=0&is=34&ar=485
» http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/features.jsp?p=0&is=34&ar=491
http://www.nps.gov/brvb
Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act
• Civil Rights Act: Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
– Equal access to public accommodations
– Demanded school integration
– Ended discriminatory hiring practices
• Voting Rights Act: Signed into law by President Johnson in 1965.
– Reinforced 15th amendment
– Outlawed literacy tests & other discriminatory pre-voting measures
• Image of the Civil Rights Act:
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=97
• Document-based lesson plan on Civil Rights Act: Image of the Civil
Rights Act: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=97
• Image of the Voting Rights Act: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=100
• Introduction to Voting Rights Act: http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro.php
Passing the 24th Amendment (1962-1964)
“There can be no one too poor to vote.” ~ LBJ
• Library of Congress mini-presentation:
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_
modern_polltax_1.html
• 1964 article from Time magazine:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9
171,897070,00.html
• Image of the Congressional resolution calling
for the amendment:
http://nara.cyclecounters.org/24th_Amendmen
t_Pg1of1_AC.jpg
Resources!
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Remember! These are only suggested resources. Make sure to preview
these sites before sharing them with your students. You know your
students better than I do!
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rfkonmlkdeath.html
– RFK’s speech on the night of MLK’s assassination - semi-commercial site
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/cr-exhibit.html
– Voices of Civil Rights online exhibit from the Library of Congress – begins with internment of
Japanese-Americans and goes through current disability activism – includes documentary
images & modern commentary from activists
http://photos.state.gov/galleries/usinfo-photo/39/civil_rights_07/index.html
– Annotated images from America.Gov
http://crmvet.org/
– Homepage of the Civil Rights Movement veterans’ organization – includes first-hand accounts of
the Movement, along with numerous images, timelines, news reports, and more
http://crmvet.org/images/imgga.htm
– Images & narrative particular to the Albany Movement & subsequent Civil Rights actions in
Georgia
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/farnsworth.html
– Fascinating article about Philo Farnsworth, the “real” inventor of television
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm022.html
– Maya Lin’s original designs for the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial
Resources for Integration
Freedom on the Menu
Carole Boston
Weatherford
Linda Brown, You Are
Not Alone
Joyce Carol Thomas, ed.
The Wall
Eve Bunting
Young Thurgood Marshall
Eric Carpenter
Rosa
Nikki Giovanni
The Civil Rights Freedom
Train
Bentley Boyd
10,000 Days of Thunder
Philip Caputo
Philo Farnsworth and
Television
Ellen Sturm Niz