Theme
Civil Rights Movement
Explore this theme across 2 historical figures, 7 heritage sites,49 lessons, 0 cultural references, and 3 journeys.
Historical Figures
Heritage Sites
Abyssinian Baptist Church
New York, NY
Claymont Community Center (Old Claymont High School)
Claymont, DE
Hockessin Colored School #107
Hockessin, DE
Hotel Theresa
New York, NY
Howard High School of Technology
Wilmington, DE
Jerry Rescue Monument
Syracuse, NY
Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center (Audubon Ballroom)
New York, NY
Curriculum Lessons
How Do We Know What We Know? An Introduction to the Curriculum's Questions
Unit 1
Women, Power & Leadership
Unit 1
The Political Convention & Public Voice (1820–1840)
Unit 4
The Debate That Shaped a Century: Douglass, Washington, Du Bois & the Question of Black Freedom
Unit 4
The Architecture of Community — Churches & Aid Societies (1840–1860)
Unit 4
The General Strike & The End of Slavery (1861–1865)
Unit 4
Serving and Sacrificing: Black Military Service from Reconstruction to World War II
Unit 4.5
Black Women's Leadership & the Civil Rights Movement
Unit 4.5
The Black Church: Institution, Liberation & the HBCU Pipeline
Unit 4.5
Marcus Garvey, the UNIA & the Black Star Line
Unit 4.5
Ida B. Wells: The Science of Lynching & the Architecture of Anti-Black Terror
Unit 4.5
Black Feminist Political Thought: Wells, Hamer, and Baker as Theorists
Unit 4.5
HBCU to Independence: The African Leaders of Lincoln University
Unit 4.5
The Three Pillars: Black Church, HBCUs, and the Divine Nine
Unit 4.5
King's Ghana Trip & Malcolm's OAAU Charter
Unit 5
Pan-Africanism: The Full Ideological Arc — Blyden to the OAU
Unit 5
Third World Marxism & Black Radical Thought: Rodney, Fanon, and C.L.R. James
Unit 5
Muhammad Ali: Resistance, Religion, and Refusal
Unit 5.5
Jackie Robinson and the Integration Bargain
Unit 5.5
African Americans as Americans: 400 Years of Presence, Contribution, and Cultural Innovation
Unit 6
The Civil Rights Movement: From Brown to Selma (1954–1965)
Unit 6
Malcolm X & the Nation of Islam: Black Nationalism and Self-Defense
Unit 6
Vietnam: Black Service, Black Resistance
Unit 6
The White Normative Gaze and Its Shadows: Respectability, Authenticity, and the Politics of Black Identity
Unit 6
The Wretched of the Earth: Violence, Sartre's Preface, and the Pitfalls Ahead
Unit 6
From Plantation to Algorithm: The Digital Life of Colorism
Unit 6
Beyond the Salon: Présence Africaine and the 1956 Congress
Unit 6.5
Dance as Liberation: Alvin Ailey & Dance Theater of Harlem
Unit 6.5
The Literary Diaspora: Black Pulitzer Prize Winners & the Canon They Built
Unit 6.5
Black Cinema: From Oscar Micheaux to Ava DuVernay
Unit 6.5
South Africa: Apartheid as Formal Law, and the Decades-Long Fight to End It
Unit 7
The Caribbean Connection: Haiti, Jamaica, and the Making of the African Diaspora
Unit 7
Reform or Abolition: The Carceral State and the Movement for Black Lives
Unit 7
Lusotropicalism and Its Limits: Race in Portugal Today
Unit 7
From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
Unit 7
Modern Caribbean Immigration: The Post-1965 Diaspora in Motion
Unit 7.5
Modern African Immigration: The Newest Diaspora
Unit 7.5
The March That Shouldn't Have Been Necessary: 1983
Unit 8
Banlieues, 2005, and the Sans-Papiers: An Unfinished Argument
Unit 8
The Ring as Refuge: Cuban Boxing After Maceo
Unit 8
Mutual Aid and Cooperative Economics: The Tradition That Survived Everything
Unit 8
Ideas That Changed the World: The Black Intellectual Tradition
Unit 10
Art as Memory, Resistance and Imagination
Unit 10
Many Paths, One Community: Religious Diversity in Black America
Unit 10
The Black Church: Faith, Community and Freedom
Unit 10
A Word Before It Was a Book
Unit 10
Between Two Movements: Organizations Bridging Black and Latino America
Unit 11
From a 'Dictators' Club' to an Institution With Actual Tools
Unit 12
Leaderless, Tribeless, Online: Kenya's Gen Z Uprising
Unit 12
Cultural References
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