+
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Sncc and Core

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the two civil rights groups that organized nonviolent protests during the 1950s and 1960s.
+
Article
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History:sarah and Angelina Grimke

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography about the Grimke sisters, both Quakers and avid social reformers. They spoke out about women's rights and slavery.
+
Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Women's Suffrage: Their Rights and Nothing Less

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Primary sources reveal the true resistance suffragists faced as they fought for women's right to vote. Through this collection of lessons, students will "understand the societal role of women from 1840 to 1920" and explore the history of...
+
Website
Other

Jwa: Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution (Jewish Women's Archive)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers an interactive look at the roles Jewish women have played in the furthering of feminism and the American women's movement in the last half of the 20th century. You can access the information through a timeline, themes of...
+
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Concerned White Citizens of Alabama Scrapbook

For Students 9th - 10th
These materials document the philosophy and activities of the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama, who fought for racial equality and voting rights for African Americans; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
+
eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s: The Kennedy Promise

For Students 11th - 12th
Discusses Kennedy's rise to power and the challenges he faced from within the government, his focus on foreign policy, the conflict with Cuba, American involvement in Vietnam, support for racial equality and civil rights, and Kennedy's...
+
Lesson Plan
University of California

History Project: Women Outside the Compass 1880 1922

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson on women and the push toward equality in which students analyze primary source text and images to evaluate the significance of women working for equal rights.
+
Website
A&E Television

History.com: Black History Milestones

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed account of the history of African Americans is presented in this article. Divided by main topics or periods of time, the coming of slavery to America is the first focus. Followed by plantation life and escapes to freedom and...
+
Lesson Plan
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Inventive Women Part 2

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will examine The Declaration of Sentiments from the perspective of its call for women's economic equality.
+
Graphic
Library of Congress

Loc: Women of Protest: Photographs From National Woman's Party

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a collection of photographs from the Library of Congress that show the militant tactics of the National Woman's Party in its support of woman's suffrage. In addition to the photographs, there are articles about this branch of the...
+
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Booker T. Washington: Orator, Teacher, and Advisor

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Through two primary source activities and watching a short video, young scholars will learn about Booker T. Washington's commitment to African American education, and assess his ideas about how to achieve equality for African Americans...
+
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Civil Rights Act of 1964

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the history of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 including the background and work by leaders such as President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon Johnson, and Martin Luther King, Jr on this site.
+
Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Separate Is Not Equal: Sitting for Justice: Woolworth's Lunch Counter

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a brief description of the sit-in at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. This sit-in, passive and non-violent resistance to segregation laws, lasted for six months.
+
Handout
Other

Mississippi Writers' Page: Ida B. Wells Barnett

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Mississippi offers a detailed biography of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) the famous freedom fighter is offered at this site. It includes an extensive bibliography of her works, and works about her, as well as some...
+
Website
PBS

Pbs: Not for Ourselves Alone

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, a companion to a PBS program, explores the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. With ample use of video and audio commentary, the site chronicles their work, their friendship and thus the history of the...
+
Primary
Other

D Archives: Alice Stone Blackwell, Objections Answered

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this 1915 essay by Alice Stone Blackwell, who outlines the basic reasons women should be granted equal voting rights in the U.S.
+
Website
Other

Anarchy Archives: Emma Goldman's Collected Works

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the book "Anarchism and Other Essays" here on this site. Includes a biographical sketch of Goldman and several essays pertaining to women's rights.
+
Website
PBS

Pbs: Angelina and Sarah Grimke

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of the Grimke sisters, women who were before their time in so many ways and who fought for equality of the sexes.
+
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Little Rock Nine

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the history of the Little Rock Nine on this site. Site discusses how African-American students who fought to end segregation by attending an all-white high school.
+
Article
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

For Students 9th - 10th
Rosa Parks started a revolution by refusing to give up her seat on a bus. Read about the Montgomery bus boycott, and see how the nonviolent actions of supporters of the Civil Rights movement succeeded in using the boycott to inspire more...
+
Lesson Plan
US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Primary documents related to women's suffrage in the 1800s are presented here accompanied by teaching ideas. There is a script called 'Failure is Impossible' that was commissioned by the National Archives, as well as petitions, proposed...
+
Graphic
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Timeline: Woman Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the suffrage movement with this interactive timeline.
+
Website
Library of Congress

Loc: With an Even Hand, Brown vs. Board at Fifty

For Students 9th - 10th
A special exhibit at the Library of Congress to commemorate the Brown vs. Board of Education 50 year anniversary.
+
Article
Hartford Web Publishing

World History Archives: Sncc Fought for Change From the Bottom Up

For Students 9th - 10th
A highly informative narrative on the development and philosophy of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, with comparisons to Dr. King's SCLC and the Black Panther Party. Good resource.