Voting Rights.
Students will use a map with population data to develop hypotheses concerning the distribution of political power in Alabama in 1962, 1964 and 1965. Define and discuss the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Teaching With Documents: Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education

The Civil Rights Movement
Students will examine the various political and social changes which have occurred as individuals and groups have raised civil rights issues and challenged the status quo in the 1950’s and 1960’s. These events and changes will be chronicled in, but not limited to the following: Brown v Board of Education, Montgomery Bus boycott, Little Rock Crisis, Marches on Washington, Birmingham and Selma, the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964 the 24th Amendment, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The students will research the events, making an oral presentation to the class, and creating a visual/photographic timeline.

Little Rock 9, Integration 0.  A collaborative web quest studying desegregation of public schools.

Separate but Equal Revisited.
Students examine the struggle for desegregation during the Civil Rights Movement and a current study that finds that American schools are reverting to segregation.
 

Alabama Virtual Library

Best of History Websites

History Timelines (Alternatime)

Digital History Using new technologies to enhance teaching and research

History Matters  Designed for high school teachers of U.S. history courses. A gateway for web resources and other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

National Archives Digital Classroom

American Memory Primary source material from the collection of the Library of Congress.

Graphic Organizers

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