NO Prep - Civil Rights Movement - Timeline - Webquest

This resource provides students with a broad overview of the history of the Civil Rights Movement. They independently research major events in the organisation's history by investigating key dates and events plotted on a timeline. For each event, there is a clue and/or a picture which the students use to guide them on their research.

The following key dates / events are included:

• July 26, 1948 – Executive Order 9981
• May 17, 1954 - Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
• August 28, 1955 - EMMETT TILL
• December 1, 1955
• December 5, 1955
• June 5, 1956 - Montgomery Federal Court – 14th Amendment
• September 3, 1957 - Little Rock Nine
• Civil Rights Act of 1957
• February 1, 1960 - Greensboro
• November 14, 1960 - Ruby Bridges
• May 4, 1961 - Freedom Rides
• Spring 1963 – The Birmingham Campaign.
• August 28, 1963 - The March on Washington
• July 2, 1964 - Civil Rights Act 1964
• 1964 - Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
• February 21, 1965 – Assassination of Malcom X
• March 7, 1965 - Selma – Montgomery March
• February 21, 1965 – Assassination of Malcom X
• March 7, 1965 - Selma – Montgomery March
• August 6, 1965 - Voting Rights Act of 1965
• April 4, 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr / James Earl Ray
• April 11, 1968 – The Fair Housing Act

At the start there is a KWL chart and the last activity requires students to add any other events/dates which they found to be important during their research to be important.

There are THREE documents in a ZIP FILE:

• The Tasks
• The Answers: Suggestions Only
• The ToU - Please make sure that you read this!

Also check out:

MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT Webquest

Civil Rights - Black History Month - Bulletin - Posters
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN - Black History Month

I am no US history teacher. I use these tasks and activities in my EFL/ESL classes but I am sure they will be of use in the history classroom.

I have read through the resources many times, but if you see or come across any mistakes, please let me know so that I can fix it. I would love feedback on these resources, please - THANKS IN ADVANCE.

TERMS OF USE: Please note that only the purchaser is permitted to make reproductions of these pages for the use in his/her classroom. Other types of reproductions are prohibited.

Pictures used are from www.unsplashed.com and permission for use was obtained.

Pictures used are also from www.pixabay.com.

Pictures were also found online labelled 'for reuse, modification and commercial purposes.