Civil+Rights+Unit

__ **Unit Plan- Civil Rights** __

__** General Resources **__ 1. **The Civil Rights Era** []

2. **America: Telling America's Story** []

3. **Mandela's Life and Times (BBC)** []

4. **Behind the Veil: Documenting America's Life in the Segregated South** []

5. **Birmingham Civil Rights Institute** [] Searchable database of primary and secondary sources related to the civil rights movement.

6. **Black Panther Party** []

7. **United States Department of Justice- Civil Rights Division** []

8. **Federal Resources for Education Excellence (FREE)** [|www.free.ed.gov]

9. **Freedom House** [] Monitors civil rights issues around the world

10. **Frontline: The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela** []

11. **New York Times: How Race is Lived in America** []

12. **American Civil Liberties Union** [|www.aclu.org]

13. **Martin Luther King Jr. Institute** []

14. **Leadership Conference on Civil Rights** [|www.civilrights.org]

15. **Facing History and Ourselves** []

16. **National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)** [|www.naacp.org]

17. **National Archives** [|www.archives.gov] Searchable archive of primary source documents related to the civil rights movement.

18. **Nelson Mandela Foundation** []

19. **The University of Southern Mississippi Oral History Index** []

20. **Reporting Civil Rights** []

21. **Southern Freedom Movement** []

22. **Teachable Moment: Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility** []

23. **The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords** []

24. **The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle** []

25. **Teaching Tolerance** [|www.tolerance.org]

26. **U.S. Commission on Civil Rights** []

27. **Civil Rights Documentation Project** []

28. **Voices of Civil Rights** []

29. **We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement** []

30. **National Civil Rights Museum** [] Great lesson plans and background resources for teaching about civil rights.

31. **Television News during the Civil Rights Era** [|www.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilrights]

32. **Slavery in America** [|www.slaveryinamerica.org]

33. **Atlantic Slave Trade** [|www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces]

34. **Teach the First Amendment** [|www.teachfirstamendment.org]

35. **Civil Rights Digital Library** []

36. **Tom Brokaw: 1968** []

37. **Regents of the //University of California vs. Bakke// (1978)- Affirmative Action** []

38. **Jim Crow History** [|www.jimcrowhistory.org]

39. **Traces of the Trade** [|www.tracesofthetrade.org]

40. **RACE: The Power of an Illusion** [|www.pbs.org/race]

41. **Free at Last: The U.S. Civil Rights Movement** []

42. **The Rights of the People** []

43. **Human Rights in Brief** []

44. **The Legacy of Thurgood Marshall** []

45. **Test Yourself for Hidden Bias** []

46. **Civil Rights Teaching** [|www.civilrightsteaching.org]

47. **Southern Poverty Law Center** [|www.splc.org]

48. **American Bar Association- Dialogue on //Brown v. Board of Education//** []

49. **Apartheid Museum** [|www.apartheidmuseum.org]

50. **//Time// Article "South Africa Looks for a Leader" (April 27, 2009)** []

51. **The Universal Declaration of Human Rights** []

52. **Civil Rights Quizzes (Iowa Civil Rights Commission)** []

53. **Iowa Public Television- Civil Rights Pathway** []

54. **National Urban League** [|www.nul.org]

55. **Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)** [|www.sclcnational.org]

56. **Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)** [|www.core-online.org]

57. **Black Panther Party** [|www.blackpanther.org]

58. **Documents of the Black Panther Party** []

59. **The Bill of Rights Institute** [|www.billofrightsinstitute.org]

60. **Landmark Supreme Court Cases** [|www.landmarkcases.org]

61. **U.S. Supreme Court Media** [|www.oyez.org]

62. **Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech** []

63. **Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nonviolent Resistance** []

64. **Hatewatch Blog** []

65. **Freedom House** [|www.freedomhouse.org]

66. **Human Rights Around the World** []

67. **Human Rights Watch** [|www.hrw.org]

68. **Amnesty International** [|www.amnesty.org]

69. **Hate on Display**- A visual database of extremist symbols []

70. **African-American World** []

71. **Frontline: A Class Divided** []

72. **The Two Nations of Black America** []

73. **Hate Groups Map** []

74. **Anti-Defamation League** [|www.adl.org]

75. **Sit-Ins** [|www.sitins.com]

76. **Central High- Little Rock Nine** []

77. **Scottsboro- Am American Tragedy** []

78. **Civil Rights Movement Bibliography** []

**__Audio and Video Resources__** 1. **Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech** [|www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm]

2. **Malcolm X "House Negro and Field Negro"** []

3. **Huey Newton Interview** []

4. **Nelson Mandela Released From Prison** []

5. **Little Rock Nine** []

6. **Tiananmen Square** [] []

7. **The Murder of Emmett** **Till** []

8. **Stokely Carmichael: We Need a Black United Front** [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=]

9. **Martin Luther King's Last Speech** []

10. **Malcolm X on Dr. Martin Luther King** []

11. **Martin Luther King Assassination Report (CBS)** []

12. **Robert Kennedy Announcing the Death of Martin Luther King** []