Case background and primary source documents concerning the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education. Dealing with the principle of Equal Protection, this lesson asks students to assess the role played by the Court as the protector of individual rights against the tyranny of the majority.

The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. This website reviews some of the major events from the 1960s regarding Civil Rights.

An overview of the prosperity of the 1950s and the growing civil rights movements during this decade for desegregation and equal treatment.

A recording and transcript of Martin Luther King Jr.'s celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Interview with Linda Brown Smith on her family’s involvement in the Brown vs. Board of Education lawsuit (includes written transcript). Discussion centers on her experiences in Kansas's segregated schools and her family's involvement in the Brown vs. Board of Education lawsuit.

This inquiry leads students through an examination of whether there is a time limit on pursuing justice in decades-old civil rights-era lynching cases. By investigating the compelling question “Is it ever too late for justice?” students evaluate primary sources about the murder of Emmett Till and address the issue of whether the passage of time essentially closes the book on cases where justice was not served. The formative performance tasks help students build knowledge and practice skills so they can answer the supporting questions. Students create an evidence-based argument to answer the compelling question.

After losing twice in the lower courts, Plessy took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the previous decisions that racial segregation is constitutional under the "separate but equal" doctrine. This resource includes teacher materials, guides, and activities for teaching about this Supreme Court case.

In these three lessons the students will analyze and assess Executive Order 10730, which was issued by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 23, 1957, in response to a crisis concerning the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Additionally, the students will compare and contrast reactions to President Eisenhower’s executive order by examining and evaluating letters that were written to the White House by American citizens in response to this policy. The students will use close textual analysis to draw conclusions and present arguments as directed in each lesson. They will compose a persuasive essay supported by textual evidence from the documents to express and defend their viewpoints.

This is a unit plan for the "Roaring" 1920's. Included is a lecture powerpoint from google slides, student samples on project based learning, and Utah Standards.

Rosa Parks, interviewed in April 1956 by Pacifica radio station KPFA. The interview comes from the “”:In Pacifica Radio Archives. Interview of Rosa Parks in 1956 Interview about her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott (includes written transcript)

Information from the Library of Congress about the timeline of voting rights for African Americans in the United States

The papers of A. Philip Randolph document his protests against segregation, particularly in the armed forces and defense industries during the war. Randolph led a successful movement during World War II to end segregation in defense industries by threatening to bring thousands of blacks to protest in Washington, D. C., in 1941. The threatened March on Washington in 1941 prompted President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802, stating that there should be "no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color or national origin." The Committee on Fair Employment Practices was established to handle discrimination complaints.