CKLA Unit 5: A More Perfect Union: Voices for Civil Rights in America
Focus:
This unit focuses on examining various civil rights movements in the United States. Students will read selections from A More Perfect Union: Voices for Civil Rights in America, a collection of speeches, memoirs, interviews, letters, and other documents by people who spoke out and acted for civil rights in the United States. The different perspectives, ideas, and opinions represented in the Reader will allow students to explore the diverse viewpoints, objectives, and tactics of people who struggled to obtain their rights.
The struggles described in A More Perfect Union: Voices for Civil Rights in America are still relevant today. Students will have opportunities to think about and compare the struggles of the past with the work for social justice that remains to be done today, and in the future.
Number of Lessons: 12
Instruction Time:
90 minutes (Each lesson is broken down into 45-minute segments.)
Additional Search Terms:
primary source • discrimination • racial identity • Reconstruction Amendments • separate but equal • Jim Crow • desegregation • internment • color barrier • boycott • nonviolent protest • massive resistance • Freedom Ride • Bloody Sunday • Voting Rights Act
