[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan that teaches about nonviolence and uses the civil rights lunch counter protests as examples.

When four African American North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College students refused to leave the lunch-counter at the F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro they started the first non-violent, "sit-in" movement. Although the...

The attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 is compared to Mohandas Gandhi's response to oppression of Indians in South Africa on September 11, 1906. On that day, he led a nonviolent protest against the Natal Government to...

Informative biography of one of the founding leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a leading civil rights group of the 1960s.

An extensive discussion of Gandhi's creed of nonviolence and how he practiced this philosophy in his own life.

This resource provides a brief description of Farmer's role in support of the Greensboro sit-ins. An audio clip is included.

The main objective is for students to be able to interpret a chosen character from the novel Animal Farm. Students will then have an opportunity to represent that character in original symbolic form and present it orally to the class.

In August 1963, more than 200,000 people marched from the Washington Memorial to the Lincoln Memorial for civil rights. Read about that day in this brief article.

Learn why we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a holiday. Also gives a brief description on the life and work of Dr. King.