
The Long Journey
This lesson plan educates students about the history and significance of voting rights in the United States. It covers the evolution of voting rights from

This lesson plan educates students about the history and significance of voting rights in the United States. It covers the evolution of voting rights from

Using C-SPAN’s Landmark Cases website and programs, students will simulate the Supreme Court hearing of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), otherwise known as the Dred

This online lesson provides perspectives from Native American community members, documents, maps, images, and activities to help students and teachers understand an important and difficult

This unit is one of the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s Teaching Literacy through History resources, designed to align with the Common Core State Standards. These units

This lesson plan and resources are adapted from a performance of Sanctuary Road, a modern opera based on the writings of William Still, staged by

Claudette Colvin, at age 15, refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a Montgomery, Alabama bus on March 2, 1955. Motivated

Most textbooks and children’s books about the boycott emphasize the second ingredient – the catalytic leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks –

After the Civil War and through the Civil Rights era of the 1950s, racial segregation laws made life for many African Americans extremely difficult. Rosa

Rosa Parks was a brave woman who worked hard her whole life to promote civil rights. She is best known for not giving up her seat

In this lesson, students will explore the life of Thurgood Marshall and follow the development of his identity. Through his example, students will understand how