OPBJECTIVE:
Student will examine the Civil Rights Movement. Students will learn how to challenge and change unjust laws.
VOCABULARY:
Bus boycott
Jim Crow legislation
Segregationist
NAACP
Nobel Peace Prize
Assination
Nonviolent resistence
MATERIALS NEEDED
VIDEOS:
EYES ON THE PRIZE (The civil rights movement has been documented in the PBS video series Eyes on the Prize. The 14-part documentary is avilable from PBS Video at 1800-344-3337.
BOOKS
Voices of Freedom, a collection of oral histories, Bantam Books, NY, 1990
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader, Penguin Books, 1991.
