Instructional Activities
Teachers and students should feel free to use the resources on this site to enhance their learning experiences of the Civil Rights Movement. Below are some suggested activities that are linked or associated with the primary sources on the previous page. Teachers are reminded that the activities may be modified to fit their respective classes. Teachers may mix and match activities
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Activity 1: Suggested time 70 minutes
The Oral History presentation of Dorie Ann and Joyce Ladner can be used to teach students the effectiveness of team work, as was evident among youth during the Civil Rights Movement. Have students:
The Oral History presentation of Dorie Ann and Joyce Ladner can be used to teach students the effectiveness of team work, as was evident among youth during the Civil Rights Movement. Have students:
- watch and listen the recording, document salient points
- Use primary sources analysis tool https://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/guides.html
- identify a societal issue that they are displeased about.
- plan in groups how they are going to make their voices heard.
- volunteer for the different roles
- role play and record their ideas
- summarize the value and effectiveness of team work in the 1963 March of Washington and their role play.
Activity 2: Music Suggested time 70 min
The Role of Music on the Civil Rights Movement In groups of four, have students:
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Activity 3: Photographs Suggested time: 70 minutes
Have students:
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Activity 4: Video Suggested time 70 minutes
No More: The Children of Birmingham 1963 and the Turning Point of the Civil Rights Movement
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Activity 5: Video Suggested time 140 minutes
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
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Activity 6: Court Records Suggested time 140 minutes
Court Records from Peterson v. Greenville, SC
Court Records from Peterson v. Greenville, SC
- read and annotate document
- Use primary Sources Analysis tool: https://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/guides.html
- summarize the document
- what can be deduced from the document about the youth who participated in the sit-in?
- read and discuss the restrictive laws against blacks in South Carolina at the time and give evidence supporting institutional racism
- Compare and contrast the actions of the youth in Greenville to those of protesters in cases like Trayvon Martin or the movement against gun control after the Parkland shooting. What accounts for the similarities and differences?
- prepare a poem to capturing the influence of youth in the mentioned events.