Engage students in activities that get them to think broadly and critically about the Black experience in all of its complexity.
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GRADE LEVEL: Elementary School, Middle School, High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, History/Social Studies In commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, this curriculum for grades 3–12 provides grade-specific lessons, resources and extension activities to provide your students opportunities to examine civil rights in the United States past and present. The lessons provide an opportunity for students to delve deeper into Martin Luther King Jr…
Teach students about the history of discrimination and racism in the U.S., the struggle for civil rights and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
By Frank Murphy
Ages:5-8
By Michael G. Long
Ages:6-9
By Josh Tuininga
Ages:13 and up
By Heather Murphy Capps
Ages:10-13
By Amanda Gorman
Ages:4-8
By Winsome Bingham
Ages:4-8
By Linda Glaser
Ages:4-7
By Sherri Winston
Ages:9-12
By Calvin Alexander Ramsey
Ages:6-10
By Nancy Churnin
Ages:8-12
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s came about out of the need and desire for equality and freedom for African Americans and other people of color. Nearly one hundred years after slavery was abolished, there was widespread segregation, discrimination, disenfranchisement and racially motivated violence that permeated all personal and structural aspects of life for black people. “Jim Crow” laws at the local and state levels barred African Americans from…
By Gordon Korman
Ages:8-12
By Nikole Hannah-Jones
Ages:7-10
By Leticia Hernández-Linares
Ages:5-8
By Ibi Zoboi
Ages:5-10
By Amanda Gorman
Ages:4-8