Theme
Voting Rights
Explore this theme across 33 historical figures, 13 heritage sites,20 lessons, 10 cultural references, and 3 journeys.
Historical Figures
Fred Shuttlesworth
1922–2011
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929–1968
Four Little Girls
–?
Thurgood Marshall
1908–1993
Linda Brown
–?
Earl Warren
1891–1974
Rosa Parks
1913–2005
Ralph Abernathy
1926–1990
Jo Ann Robinson
1912–1992
Little Rock Nine
–?
Daisy Bates
1914–1999
Ernest Green
1941–?
Orval Faubus
1910–1994
Coretta Scott King
1927–2006
Martin Luther King Sr.
1899–1984
Medgar Evers
1925–1963
Myrlie Evers-Williams
1933–?
Fannie Lou Hamer
1917–1977
James Chaney
1943–1964
Andrew Goodman
1943–1964
Michael Schwerner
1939–1964
John Lewis
1940–2020
Bryan Stevenson
1959–?
Elias Camp Morris
1855–1922
Joseph H. Jackson
1884–1963
T.J. Jemison
–?
William Augustus Jones Jr.
1934–2006
Ralph David Abernathy
1926–1990
Gardner C. Taylor
1918–2015
L. Venchael Booth
1919–2002
Amelia Boynton Robinson
1911–2015
Diane Nash
1938–?
Ida B. Wells
1862–1931
Heritage Sites
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Birmingham, AL
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
Topeka, KS
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
Montgomery, AL
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
Little Rock, AR
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park
Atlanta, GA
Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument
Jackson, MS
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
Jackson, MS
Montgomery Square
Montgomery, Alabama
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. (NBC) — Baptist World Center
Nashville, TN
Progressive National Baptist Convention (PNBC) — National Headquarters
Washington, DC
Selma University
Selma, AL
Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail
Selma, AL
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Montgomery, Alabama
Curriculum Lessons
How Do We Know What We Know? An Introduction to the Curriculum's Questions
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
Black Reconstruction: The Congressmen, the Legislation, and the Collapse
Unit 4
The General Strike & The End of Slavery (1861–1865)
Unit 4
Black Women's Leadership & the Civil Rights Movement
Unit 4.5
Disenfranchisement, Jim Crow & the Red Summer
Unit 4.5
Black Feminist Political Thought: Wells, Hamer, and Baker as Theorists
Unit 4.5
The Disfranchisement Machine: How Black Voting Was Eliminated and Why It Matters
Unit 4.5
The Voting Rights Act, Shelby County, and the Unfinished Franchise
Unit 6
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
The New Jim Crow: The War on Drugs and the Rise of Mass Incarceration
Unit 6
Dance as Liberation: Alvin Ailey & Dance Theater of Harlem
Unit 6.5
Black Political Representation: From Reconstruction to the Senate Floor
Unit 7
From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
Unit 7
Modern Caribbean Immigration: The Post-1965 Diaspora in Motion
Unit 7.5
Resistance as Migration, Then and Now: The Diaspora's Unfinished Work
Unit 7.5
Whose Afropean? Class, Visibility, and the Critique
Unit 10
Cultural References
13th
Ava DuVernay · Documentary · 2016
Eyes on the Prize
Henry Hampton · Documentary · 1987
Just Mercy
Destin Daniel Cretton · Film · 2019
Lincoln
Steven Spielberg · Film · 2012
Mississippi Burning
Alan Parker · Film · 1988
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Henry Louis Gates Jr. · Documentary · 2019
Selma
Ava DuVernay · Film · 2014
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander · Literature · 2010
This Little Light of Mine
Fannie Lou Hamer / Spiritual Tradition · Music · 1963
We Shall Overcome
Pete Seeger / Civil Rights Movement · Music · 1963