Grades: 5 - 12 

Use original documents and photographs as well as letters, maps, cartoons, and posters to help students explore the past. Primary sources provide unique insight into the lives of people in different time periods.

Each kit includes: 16 photographs and primary source documents--photo cards with background information, discussion questions, and suggested activities printed on the back; CD with photographs, other primary sources student activity sheets, and extension activities; and 80 page Teacher's Guide including lesson plans, background information, a wide variety of student activities, and a document-based assessment section to help students prepare for essays found on many standardized tests. Plus, each kit meets the NCSS standards for primary source documents and this series has received the 2003 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers EdPress.

Photographs: Protesters during the 1963 March on Washington; Segregated waiting room sign from 1956; Woolworth sit-in, February 2, 1960; Rosa Parks being fingerprinted; Burning Freedom Rider bus; Ku Klux Klansmen in front of burning cross; Governor Wallace in front of doors at University of Alabama; Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr..

Primary Sources: NAACP membership drive poster; Poll Tax Amendment political cartoon; Brown v. Board of Education judgment; Civil Rights Act of 1964; Integrated Bus Suggestions from Montgomery, Alabama; President Johnson's diary entry for the Voting Rights Act of 1965; Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech; Letter to the president about Birmingham church bombings.
Awards

This series has received the 2003 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers EdPress.

Civil Rights Movement (Primary Sources)

Betsy Norris, Ed.S.

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Civil Rights Movement (Primary Sources)