civil rights

Six lessons for which instructional support and teaching steps are provided in the unit curriculum guide. Each lessons unfolds in four stages: Inquiry, Observation, Analysis, Synthesis. In this unit students examine aspects of power in United States history. They begin by considering citizenz' rights and their rights as students. They go on to study how power is gained and used in the context of four historic episodes: the woman suffrage movement, the African American struggle for equality in the first 50 years after emancipation, government's expanding role during the Great Depression, and shifting views of the United States' role in world affairs from 1914 to 1941. In the unit's final project, students explore how some Americans are using their power to work for the common good, and they discover ways in which they, too, might participate.

This is a story of the Afro-American fighting his own battle, from the time of slavery to the Black Panthers.

It examines black movements from Colonial days to the present and traces the course of the major campaigns for integration and separatism.

Presents arguments pertaining to the rights of the disabled, examining how the courts have shaped issues such as eugenic sterilization, special education, and equal access to public places through rulings, with primary sources from each case, dissenting opinions, and analyses.

A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.

Chronicles the attempts by the Bush administration to extend the bounds of presidential authority while limiting official culpability, maintaining that they have not provided a complete explanation for its detention policy.

Surveys the oppression of African-Americans in the United States, beginning in the seventeenth century, when Africans were forcibly brought to British North America to labor as slaves, through the 1990s, looking at the gains and losses experienced in the history of race relations.

A collection of poems telling the story of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Profiles the life and accomplishments of Rosa Parks, discussing her refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white person and the impact of her actions on the civil rights movement.