The Civil Rights Movement for Kids: A History with 21 Activities

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Chicago Review Press, 2000 M06 1 - 208 pages
Surprisingly, kids were some of the key instigators in the Civil Rights Movement, like Barbara Johns, who held a rally in her elementary school gym that eventually led to the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court school desegregation decision, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who was the first black student to desegregate elementary schools in New Orleans. In The Civil Rights Movement for Kids, children will discover how students and religious leaders worked together to demand the protection of civil rights for black Americans. They will relive the fear and uncertainty of Freedom Summer and learn how northern white college students helped bring national attention to atrocities committed in the name of segregation, and they'll be inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X. Activities include: reenacting a lunch counter sit-in; organizing a workshop on nonviolence; holding a freedom film festival followed by a discussion; and organizing a choral group to sing the songs that motivated the foot soldiers in this war for rights.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Let the Children Lead Early Days the 1950s
1
Chapter 2 Tired of Being Mistreated Montgomery Bus Boycott 195556
20
Chapter 3 Nonviolent Resistance Student SitIns 1960
39
Chapter 4 If Not Us Then Who? Freedom Riders 1961
56
Chapter 5 Standing Up for Freedom From Birmingham to Selma 19631965
73
Chapter 6 I Have a Dream March on Washington 1963
88
Chapter 7 Praying with My Feet Religion and Civil Rights
103
Chapter 8 You May Be Killed Freedom Summer 1964
121
Chapter 10 Keep Hope Alive Civil Rights Today
149
Civil Rights Act of 1964
159
Voting Rights Act of 1965
173
Additional Resources
177
Childrens Books for Further Reading
181
Bibliography
182
Index
185
Back Cover
191

Chapter 9 The Struggle Continues Late 1960s Keeping On
136

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Mary C. Turck is the author of Haiti: Land of Inequality and is the coauthor of Guatemala: Land of the Maya.

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