LibGuides: East Hills Middle School: Civil Rights Project

US History in Context

Middle School Resources in Context

POWER Library

Click on the image to access POWER Library. Remember, if you're doing this from home, you will need a public library card to access the site. Don't forget the 24/7 chat with a librarian!

Biographies

Civil Rights Activists
From Biography.com, videos of the lives of famous Civil Rights activists.
Civil Rights/Black Power Leaders
From Shmoop.
Ella Baker
Stokely Carmichael
Obituary from the NY Times.
Voices from the Gaps
From the University of Minnesota. Focuses on women writers and artists.
Civil Rights Movement
From History.com
Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
From PBS
Leaders in the Struggle for Civil Rights
From JFK Library
Freedom Riders: The People
from PBS
A Huey P. Newton Story
From PBS. Features bios on Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Hutton, Stokely Carmichael, and David Hillard.
The Historymakers
The nation's largest African-American video oral history collection.
Civil Rights Encyclopedia
From Stanford's "Martin Luther King and the Global Freedom Struggle".

Events

Freedom Riders
From NPR. Excerpt from the book.
Civil Rights Movement
From History.com
The Struggle for Civil Rights
From JFK Library
Freedom Riders
From PBS
Civil Rights Encyclopedia
From Stanford's "Martin Luther King and the Global Freedom Struggle".
Civil Rights Primary Sources
From Stanford's "Martin Luther King and the Global Freedom Struggle".
Civil Rights Primary Sources #2
From PBS' "American Experience".
Civil Rights Movement Veterans

Rubric

Rubric

Here is Miss Bartkus' grading rubric for this project. The file will open as a PDF.

Before the Boycott

Before the Boycott
From the National Civil Rights Museum. Travel back in time and play the role of a school newspaper reporter assigned to ride the Montgomery, Alabama bus system in 1955. Learn what it was like to ride the bus as an African American during that period in history. Complete the seven-stop Montgomery bus ride and at the end of the assignment, you will be asked to describe how you felt about the bus tour. Your news story will be automatically created and ready for print!