Brown v. the Board of Education, the Little Rock Nine and University Integration
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This is a five lesson unit from Reading Through History which documents the integration of American schools during the Civil Rights Movement.
The first lesson covers the landmark Supreme Court case, Brown v. the Board of Education.
The second is a biography of NAACP lawyer and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
The third lesson documents the Little Rock Nine and the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
The fourth lesson covers the integration of the University of Alabama, and the fifth is a biography of James Meredith, which describes his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement, including the integration of the University of Mississippi.
For each lesson there is a one or two page page reading followed by three pages of student activities. The student activities include multiple choice questions, a student response essay question, a guided reading activity, and vocabulary activities. There is enough material to cover five separate 30 minute allotments of class time.
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