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(Updated on 23/02/2013)

 


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Martin Luther King - Black people - Holidays
Freedom - Slavery - Slavery (history) - Child labour - Human Rights - Racism - Torture

 

 

History :

  • Civil rights
    THE MEANING OF EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW
    SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES: OPPOSITION TO SLAVERY
    SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES: THE CIVIL WAR ERA
    RECONSTRUCTION AND THE FIRST CIVIL RIGHTS ACTS
    BACKLASH: JIM CROW LAWS
    GOVERNMENTAL ACCEPTANCE OF DISCRIMINATION, etc...
    (answers.mheducation.com)

  • Trip Itinerary for the Civil Rights Ride (tripline.net)
    "Interacting with and learning from the people and places of the Civil Rights Movement." 

 

 

  • Rosa Parks (Wikipedia)
    She died on October 24, 2005
    1 Civil rights and political activity
    2 Debated aspects of Parks' story and its place in the Civil Rights movement
    3 Awards and honors
    4 1994 mugging incident
    5 Lawsuit against OutKast
    6 Death and Funeral
    7 Facts
    8 References
    9 External links

  • US civil rights icon Parks dies (BBC)

  • From Slavery to Civil Rights
    "Use this interactive activity to introduce African-American history through primary sources."
    (lcweb2.loc.gov)

 

  • American History - PowerPoint Presentations (pppst.com)
    Explorers - Civil War - Government -
    Native Americans - Industrial/Immigration - Geography -
    Colonial Times - Great Depression - Patriotic Symbols -
    Revolutionary War - Civil Rights - Multicultural -
    Western Expansion - World Wars - Many More

  • Human Rights (CBBC Newsround)
    +     Declaration of Human Rights - simplified text
    Universal Declaration of Human Rights - full text
    Discrimination and human rights

  • Black History Month (infoplease.com)
    History and Timelines / Contemporary Issues / Special Features / Holidays /
    Education / Awards / Quizzes & Crosswords / Other Resources /
    Almanac and Reference Links

 

  • Civil Rights - A Timeline of African-American History (memory.loc.gov)

 

  • CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE USA :
    "A comprehensive encyclopedia of the struggle for civil rights in the United States.
    Each entry contains a narrative, illustrations and primary sources.
    The text within each entry is hypertexted to other relevant pages in the encyclopedia.
    In this way it is possible to research individual people and events in great detail...
    So far there are sections on: Campaigners (1860-1900), Campaigners (1900-1980), Issues, Events & Organizations (1840-1900) and Issues, Events & Organizations (1900-1980). " (Spartacus Educational)
  • Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS)
    - with an interactive timeline, interactive maps, tools, activities...
    "Jim Crow was not a person, yet affected the lives of millions of people.
    Named after a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans,
    "Jim Crow" came to personify the system of government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the United States    ."
  • Rosa Parks : How I fought for Civil Rights (scholastic.com)
    "Rosa Parks, "The Mother of the Modern-day Civil Rights Movement," describes her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helps students understand the importance of every individual citizen in a democracy. Read through her story and then express how you would feel if you were in her situation. (Vocabulary words are in bold.) for grades 7-8

 

  • Malcolm X : Film description - Transcript - Related sites (PBS)

 

  • Malcolm X (Wikipedia)

    1 Biography
    1.1 Early years
    1.2 Prison
    1.3 Nation of Islam
    1.4 Hajj
    1.5 Africa
    1.6 Death and aftermath
    2 Biographies and speeches...

 

  • Black History Month Theme Unit (Edhelper) :
    Crossword Puzzle - Stories and Biographies - Mazes - Spelling and Vocabulary -
    Famous African Americans / Biographies

 

 

Photos :

 

  • Powerful Days in Black and White (kodak.com)
    "Shocking photos brought the civil-rights struggle to all America.
    Relive it now..."
  • USA : la ségrégation s'affiche (CRDP d'Alsace)
    Les photographes de la FSA documentent les enseignes, pancartes et affiches
    séparant Blancs, Noirs et Indiens dans l'Amérique des années 30 et 40.

 

Maps :

 

Glossary :

 

Encyclopaedia :

 

 

Listening :

 

  • Obama honours civil rights music
    "The music of the civil rights movement has been celebrated with a performance at the White House last night.
    The president spoke of his great debt of gratitude towards the campaign against racial segregation in the US."
    (BBC)

  • Rosa Parks 1913-2005: We Air A Rare 1956 Interview With Parks During the Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Audio + rush transcript
    (democracynow.org)

  • Rosa Parks Interview 
    "Could you tell us exactly what happened that day on that Montgomery bus?"
    + the transcript
    (achievement.org)

 

  • LISTENING COMPREHENSION :
    Martin Luther King : "Man with a dream" - dates, passive form (6 exercises) - (Michel Barbot)

 

 

 

Activities :

 

  • Black History 101 (Education World) :
    "Read each clue. Each clue tells about a famous black American on the list ....
    Use the list to connect to a short biography of each person.
    On the line next to each clue, write the name of the person that the clue tells about."
    - to print
  • Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday -
    activities     across the grades for learning about his life (Education World)
  • Rosa Parks - Short-answer quiz (interactive) with a text : "Sitting Down" (guennegues)
  • Rosa Parks : How I fought for Civil Rights (scholastic.com)
    "Rosa Parks, "The Mother of the Modern-day Civil Rights Movement," describes her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helps students understand the importance of every individual citizen in a democracy.
    Read through her story and then express how you would feel if you were in her situation.
    (Vocabulary words are in bold.) for grades 7-8

 

  • Black History Month Theme Unit (Edhelper) :
    Crossword Puzzle - Stories and Biographies - Mazes - Spelling and Vocabulary -
    Famous African Americans / Biographies

 

Lesson plans :

  • UNIT EIGHT : CIVIL RIGHTS (ldanielpv.weebly.com) :

    Early civil rights presentation - Download File

    Linda Brown background - Download File

    Classifying arguments - Download File

    Brown v. Board cartoons - Download File

    Immediate reaction to the decision - Download File

  • Rosa Parks and Emmett Till
    "I ... read in an article in the NYT that she refused to leave her seat because she was thinking of Emmett Till : so I researched about him,
    and discovered his story and two documentary films and the fact that the judgement of his murderers will be revised."
    (Christine Reymond - Ac. Rouen)

    Rosa Parks

    Cartoons 
    Videos 
    Audio files 
    Newspapers 
    Articles 
    Special Reports 
    Photo Essays 
    Worksheets and lesson plans

    Emmett Till

    An article in the New York Times 
    The story of Emmett 
    Songs, blogs and poems 
    Documentary films 
    Lesson plans


 

 


  • Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies
    - a lesson plan with "a news article, listening (MP3 file), communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises."
    (Breaking News English)

     

    BIOGRAPHIES
    en rapport avec la leçon de Breaking News English sur Rosa Parks :

    Malcolm X (Wikipedia)

    1 Biography
    1.1 Early years
    1.2 Prison
    1.3 Nation of Islam
    1.4 Hajj
    1.5 Africa
    1.6 Death and aftermath
    2 Biographies and speeches...

     

    Maya Angelou (Wikipedia)

    She is "an African-American poet, memoirist, actress, and civil rights activist."

    1 Life
    2 Careers
    3 Pop Culture...

     

    Michael Jackson (Wikipedia)

    1 Early childhood
    2 The Jackson 5 (The Jacksons)
    3 Solo career
    4 Personal life
    5 Controversies
    6 Discography
    7 Filmography...

     

    Jesse Owens (Wikipedia)

    "James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 - March 31, 1980) was an African-American athlete and civic leader."

     

    Colin Powell (Wikipedia)

    1 Personal background
    2 Military career
    3 Civilian career
    4 Secretary of State
    5 Life after politics
    6 Civilian awards
    7 Political views...

     

    Condoleezza Rice (Wikipedia)

    1 Childhood
    2 Education
    3 Academic career
    4 Business career
    5 Political career
    5.1 Early phase
    5.2 National Security Advisor (2001 - 2005)
    5.3 Secretary of State
    6 Future prospects
    7 Trivia...

     

  • Civil Rights Movement Unit - Using Primary Sources in the Classroom (state.al.us)
    Lesson 1: Riding the Bus - Taking a Stand
    Lesson 2: The Opinions of the Public
    Lesson 3: Birmingham 1963
    Lesson 4: Marching for Justice - Selma to Montgomery
    Lesson 5: Voting Rights

  • Black Peoples of the Americas - Worksheets (historyonthenet.com)

 

Webquests :

 

 

INTERACTIVE games :

  • Civil Rights Movement
    Pictures and School Presentations / Quiz Games / Online Games and Puzzles / Videos
    (neok12.com)

 

 

Games TO PRINT :

 

Songs :

  • Outkast - Rosa Parks (YouTube)
    + LYRICS below the video.
  • Still I Rise by Maya Angelou (YouTube)
    Read the poem
    "You may write me down in history
    With your bitter, twisted lies,
    You may trod me in the very dirt
    But still, like dust, I'll rise...
    Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
    I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
    I rise..."
    (poetryfoundation.org)
    Listen to the song : Ben Harper - I'll Rise (YouTube)

  • Across 110th Street by Bobby Womack
    "I was the third brother of five,
    Doing whatever I had to do to survive.
    I'm not saying what I did was alright,
    Trying to break out of the ghetto was a day to day fight..."
    (lyrics007.com)
    Listen to the song. (YouTube)

  • Turning Point by Nina Simone
    "See the little brown girl...
    Mom, can she come over
    To play dolls with me?...
    Why not? oh why not?
    Oh. . . I. . . see. . ."
    (sing365.com)
    - the VIDEO (YouTube)

  • Common Feat Will.I.Am - DREAM Lyrics (stlyrics.com)
    "I got a dream
    [that one day]
    that one day
    all of the people and myself
    are gonna find a better way
    My dream is to be free"
    - the VIDEO (YouTube)



    See Cinema

 

  • It Isn't Nice by Malvina Reynolds (wku.edu)
    - with the     VIDEO (YouTube)

    Malvina Reynolds (Wikipedia)

  • Sister Rosa Parks, by the Neville Brothers
    - un travail proposé par Yannick TROCCAZ (Ac. Grenoble) avec remise des paragraphes et des phrases du refrain dans l'ordre puis analyse.

  • Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday (pbs.org)
    "Southern trees bear strange fruit,
    Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
    Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
    Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees."
    - with     the lyrics
    + Strange Fruit From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
    + the VIDEO (YouTube)
    Some photos may be shocking!
    See Lesson plans

    MORE LINKS on Infonews

 

Cartoons:

 

 

Videos :

 

 

 

 

Cinema :

  • Free Angela & all political prisoners - Un film de Shola Lynch - France/États-unis, 2012 - avec un dossier pédagogique
    "Au sommaire du dossier :
    Introduction 
    Fiche technique du film  
    Activité 1 : Timeline
    Activité 2 : Counterculture & the establishment
    Activité 3 : A political prisoner ?  
    Activité 4 : Storytelling / The making of an icon
    Activité 5 : Final Task"  
    (zerodeconduite.net)

  • Freedom Writers = a 2007 American film
    "It is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell.
    The title is a play on both the terms of "Freedom Riders", the black and white civil rights activists who tested the U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering the desegregation of interstate buses in 1961, and Freedom Fighters, as in somebody who fights for freedom...
    Common (a rapper) has lent his talents to the soundtrack with "A Dream" (featuring will.i.am). "
    (Wikipedia)

    Common Feat Will.I.Am - DREAM Lyrics (stlyrics.com)
    "I got a dream
    [that one day]
    that one day
    all of the people and myself
    are gonna find a better way
    My dream is to be free"
    - the VIDEO (YouTube)



ART :
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