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Ballotpedia’s Updated Map of State Voter ID Laws
Learning Objective: 4-1: Define civil rights; 4-5: Assess the role of collective action efforts in the civil rights movement.
 

Video

Civil Rights
Learning Objective: 4-1: Define civil rights; 4-5: Assess the role of collective action efforts in the civil rights movement.

Brown v Board of Education and Separate but Equal
Learning Objective: 4-3: Discuss the political efforts to seek civil rights for African Americans from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Integration of Little Rock Central High School
Learning Objective: 4-3: Discuss the political efforts to seek civil rights for African Americans from the nineteenth century to the present day.

1960 Lunch Counter Sit-ins
Learning Objective: 4-3: Discuss the political efforts to seek civil rights for African Americans from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Bloody Sunday

March From Selma to Montgomery

Rachel Maddow: A Promissory Note

Women’s Rights
Learning Objectives: 4-4: Explain the legacy of the civil rights movement for groups such as women, Hispanics, and members of the LGBT community.

Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Learning Objective: 4-4: Explain the legacy of the civil rights movement for groups such as women, Hispanics, and members of the LGBT community.

The Supreme Court Vacates the Voting Rights Act Formula
Learning Objective: 4-1: Define civil rights; 4-5: Assess the role of collective action efforts in the civil rights movement.

Texas Enacts New Voter ID Law
Learning Objective: 4-1: Define civil rights; 4-5: Assess the role of collective action efforts in the civil rights movement.

The Colbert Report: Voter ID Laws
Learning Objective: 4-1: Define civil rights; 4-5: Assess the role of collective action efforts in the civil rights movement.

The Daily Show: NYC’s Stop and Frisk Policy
Learning Objective: 4-3: Discuss the political efforts to seek civil rights for African Americans from the nineteenth century to the present day.
 

Web Resources

History.com’s Civil Rights database
The History.com Civil Rights Database contains a wealth of historical video footage and short video clips that allow the instructor to bring civil rights events from the 1960s to life. Also included is a speech archive.
Learning Objective: 4-3: Discuss the political efforts to seek civil rights for African Americans from the nineteenth century to the present day.