Civil Rights in America

Lesson Plans

Here are our recommendations for some great lesson plan to follow up on. 

• How the Civil Rights Movement embodied a time of change from pbs.org including resources.

• Flawed Democracy, Human Rights  from Getty Education relating to U.S. internment of Japanese Americans

• Art as a Civic Language: Analyzing A Jacob Lawrence Painting from JFK Library

• Civil Rights Movement: Respond and Relate thinking and art activity from the National Gallery of Art. Use the Step Inside handout. 

URLS and Resources 

1. Extraordinary museum and website telling the American story through the lens of African American history and culture - The National Museum of African American History and Culture.  https://nmaahc.si.edu/

2. Library of Congress's website  which houses many civil rights related artworks and documents. https://www.loc.gov

3. Art21- Great website presenting contemporary artists including many from this presentation. https://art21.org/ 

4.  A great resource with videos, lesson plans, and documents related to Civil Rights https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/civil/

5. A great resource for the Black Panther   This Just In: Emory Douglas & The Black Panther – Letterform Archive