Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement Inquiry Question: What does the Civil Rights Movement teach you about America?

Part I: Before Brown v. Board of Education

Part I → Focus Questions:

A. In what ways were African Americans discriminated against and denied their constitutional rights in the decades before 1954?

B. How did African-Americans challenge racism and segregation and fight for their constitutional rights in the decades before 1954?

Part II → Focus Questions:

A. How did African-Americans challenge racism and segregation in the years after 1954?

B. What tactics did segregationists employ in an effort to maintain segregation in the years after 1954?

Going Further . . .

Music in the Civil Rights Movement (PBS: American Experience)
Songs and the Civil Rights Movement (The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute and Stanford University)
Songs of the Civil Rights Movement (NPR)

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