This lesson plan makes a connection to popular culture by asking students to research and analyze contemporary and historic protest songs and to catalogue them in a class wiki.

Thoughts of Wang Dan, primary dissident in the Tiananmen Square protests, on China during the time of the protests and China in current times. June 2, 2009

Lesson plan tackles the turbulent events in Egypt and other Middle East countries by asking students to examine political cartoons and understand how social and traditional media served as a tool for the nonviolent protests. February, 2011

Read about the organization behind the sit-ins at southern businesses, first in Greensboro, North Carolina, then spread throughout the south. Of interest is the prominence of student-led protest. Be sure to look at the related events and...

Explore these primary resources to learn about the free speech movement, particularly in California, determine who the leaders were, where the center of activity was, and what the message was that students were trying to convey.

This three-part investigation into the 1968 student massacre in Mexico city prior to the Olympic Games gives insight into their protest movement, the events of the Sad Night, and the lasting effects of the violence 30 years after the...

This ibiblio.org site gives the six-year history of this college based group that supported the civil rights movement and tells of its nonviolent philosophy.

Go directly to two lesson plans developed by the producers of the PBS documentary "The Making of Dead Man Walking" about an opera based on the work of Helen Prejean. Use the lessons to help students examine how art and music can define...

Newberry Library digital collections presents a lesson using primary sources from which students explore the concept of "anti-state" sentiment and examine the reasons writers and politicians protest the authority of the federal...

Extensive teaching aid to help students understand the Montgomery Bus Boycott using primary sources such as letters, police reports, leaflets, and speeches. Includes many student activities and resources.

A comprehensive five part lesson plan that teaches student how to use what happend in the famous bus boycott for both content knowledge and also how to apply to other social movements. The role of Rosa Parks is examined in detail.

From Kent University archives, find collections providing Frequently Asked Questions, May 4 Web Exhibit, oral history project, and legal aftermath. Trustworthy source of information on this tragic incident in history.

Find two lesson plans developed for a PBS documentary about the Greensboro Four, whose sit-in at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter was a key event in the unfolding history of the civil rights movement. The lessons ask students to...

Text on the Jackson State University shootings a well as pictures of the memorial and the building where bullet holes can still be seen.

This article details a key event in the civil rights struggle--the demonstration organized by the Rev. Martin Luther King in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965, when 525 people met a police blockade on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

A lesson plan that examines the events and conditions that led to the 1963 March on Washington and the impact of the march on civil rights in the United States. Students learn about the concept of "separate but equal" and the philosophy...

A lesson in which students examine the history of civil disobedience and analyze whether it is a viable form of protest in today's world. They will explore quotations about law versus personal conviction in order to form a group...

This site from the Fordham University offers bio and obituary of Mario Savio, 1960's leader of the Free Speech movement.

Detailed and interesting information pertaining to the four students shot dead at Kent State University by Ohio National Guardsmen on May 4, 1970.

Lesson where students examine primary texts from 1775 and 1776 to explore the impact of the Battles of Lexington and Concord on people's attitudes towards the British. Up to that point, protests against the British had not been violent,...

Access a database of leaflets, illustrations, posters, and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the 1960s and 1970s. Items in the collection reflect the social and political activities of the...

It's December 16, 1773 and many of the citizens of Boston are furious with King George's new tax on tea. Young Ethan, a printer's errand boy, has been given the task of conveying information concerning an upcoming protest meeting. As he...