Civil Rights Movement

  • 1-2 Weeks
  • Grades 9-12
  • 5 Lessons
Overview
Curriculum
Professor

About This Course

Learn about a range of activists, mobilizers, and organizers who fought for racial equality during the Black freedom struggle, also known as the Civil Rights Movement.

The social, political, and economic demands of the Civil Rights Movement transformed America, aiming to eliminate segregation and grant equal rights for all citizens, particularly Black Americans. Leonard Moore dives into events that catalyzed the movement and inspired Americans to fight against the racist power structures proliferating across the country.

Virtual Library

20 Videos

14 Readings

3 Sound Recordings

42 Additional Sources

History Lab

3 Research Activities

2 Writing Tasks

6 Comprehension Questions

20 Discussion Questions

7 Exit Ticket Questions

Course Curriculum

Day 1

Lesson 1: The Brown Decision, Massive Resistance, & the Emmett Till Tragedy

Videos: 3
Readings: 2
Additional Sources: 12 (2 videos, 2 audios, 8 readings)

Writing Tasks: 1
Comprehension: 2 Multiple-Choice Questions
Discussion: 4 Questions
Exit Ticket: 2 Questions

Day 2

Lesson 2: Boycotts, Sit-Ins, & Freedom Rides

Videos: 3
Readings: 3
Additional Sources: 8 (5 readings, 1 audio, 2 videos)

Research: 1 Activity
Comprehension: 1 Multiple-Choice Question
Discussion: 4 Questions
Exit Ticket: 1 Question

Day 3

Lesson 3: Birmingham, 1963

Videos: 3
Sound Recordings: 2 Readings: 3
Additional Sources: 7 (3 readings, 4 videos)

Research: 1 Activity
Comprehension: 1 Multiple-Choice Question
Discussion: 4 Questions
Exit Ticket: 1 Question

Day 4

Lesson 4: Freedom Summer & the 1964 Civil Rights Act

Videos: 4
Sound Recordings: 1
Readings: 2
Additional Sources: 8 (5 readings, 2 videos, 1 audio)

Research: 1 Activity
Comprehension: 1 Multiple-Choice Question
Discussion: 4 Questions
Exit Ticket: 1 Question

Day 5

Lesson 5: Lowndes County, Selma, & the 1965 Voting Rights Act

Videos: 4
Readings: 4
Additional Sources: 7 (4 readings, 2 videos, 1 audio)

Writing Tasks: 1
Comprehension: 1 Multiple-Choice Question
Discussion: 4 Questions
Exit Ticket: 2 Questions

Professor

Professor Leonard N. Moore

University of Texas at Austin

Leonard N. Moore is the George Littlefield Professor of American History and the former vice-president of diversity and community engagement. He is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and earned his B.A. from Jackson State University in 1993 and his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1998. From 1998-2007 he was a professor at Louisiana State University and he has been at UT-Austin since 2007. At the University of Texas, he teaches a class on the Black Power Movement and a signature course titled "Race in the Age of Trump." In the fall semester, he teaches more than 1,000 students across both courses. He also directs study abroad programs in Cape Town, Beijing, and Dubai. Since 2013, he has taken more than 400 students abroad.

 

Professor Moore is the author of four books on Black politics, Teaching Black History to White People (University of Texas Press, 2021), The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972 (Louisiana State University Press, 2018), Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina (Louisiana State University Press, 2010), and Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power in America (University of Illinois Press, 2002).

 

He is currently working on two book projects:

The Ghosts of Bear Bryant: The Dilemma of Race and College Football

They Cheer for Man U in the Townships: Race and the English Premier League