Primary Source Learning: Civil Rights

Citizen U multidisciplinary civics lessons

• Civil Rights and Civic Action
• Dolores Huerta
  • Building Coalitions to Affect Change
  • Collaborating to Affect Change
  • Inspiring Civic Responsibility
• Selma & Voting Rights: Standing Up for Equality
• Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
• Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer

More lessons 

• Baseball, Race Relations and Jackie Robinson
• Baseball, Race and Ethnicity: Rounding the Bases
• I Have a Dream Image Sequencing
• We Shall Overcome

Guided primary source analysis activities

• An airship with a “Jim Crow” trailer
• Why we can’t . . .
• Woman Fingerprinted

Primary source sets with teacher guides

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom Idea Book for Educators
• NAACP
• Postwar United States (1945-1968)
• Protest & Reform
• Rosa Parks

Teaching with the Library of Congress civil rights blog posts

• Barbara Pope: Newspaper Accounts of a Civil Rights Pioneer January 13, 2022
• The Civil Rights History Project: Primary Sources and Oral History September 11, 2014
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Making Our Nation Whole January 16, 2014
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 — Title I: Who Gets to Vote? January 28, 2014
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 – Titles II and III: The Right to Go Where You Want February 13, 2014
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 — Title IV: Equal Education for All  February 28, 2014
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 — Title VII: The Freedom to Work March 11, 2014
• Constructing a Narrative with Students about Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks from Her Notes March 1, 2017
• Selecting and Using Primary Sources with Difficult Topics: Civil Rights and Current Events April 5, 2016
• Teaching Civic Ideals Using Primary Sources: School Desegregation, Judicial Power, and Federalism Teaching with the Library of Congress
• Using the Rosa Parks Collection to Foster Student Inquiry of Parks’ Depictions in Civil Rights Narratives, Part 1 December 12, 2017
• Using the Rosa Parks Collection to Foster Student Inquiry of Parks’ Depictions in Civil Rights Narratives, Part 2 December 14, 2017

Civics digital interactives

• Case Maker
  • Brown vs. the Board of Education
  • Federalism and “Jim Crow” Laws
  • School Desegregation and the Little Rock Nine
• DBQuest
  • Nashville Sit-Ins
• Eagle Eye Citizen: Time After Time
  • Changing Attitudes
  • Fighting Against Barriers 1
  • Fighting Against Barriers 2
  • Fighting Against Barriers 3
  • Fighting Against Barriers 4
  • Fighting Against Barriers 5
  • Fighting Against Barriers 6
• Eagle Eye Citizen: Sort It Out
  • Breaking Free 1
  • Breaking Free 2
  • Everybody’s Talking
  • Fight for Your Rights
  • Fighting Against Barriers 1
  • Fighting Against Barriers 2
  • Fighting Against Barriers 3
  • Fighting Against Barriers 4
  • Fighting Against Barriers 5
  • Fighting Against Barriers 6
  • Moving Forward
• Eagle Eye Citizen: Big Picture
  • Changing Attitudes 1
  • Changing Attitudes 2
  • Changing Attitudes 3
  • Do Your Part 1
  • Do Your Part 2
  • Don’t Hate Participate
  • Fighting Against Barriers
  • Participation Nation
  • Separate but Equal 1
  • Separate but Equal 2
  • We the People
  • Who Is America?
  • Who Is Included? 1
  • Who Is Included? 2

Primary Source Spotlight: Civil Rights