This interactive notebook includes everything you need to teach a unit on the Civil Rights Movement in an engaging way! This resource covers Jim Crow laws through Johnson’s administration.
The organizers in this resource can be used on their own, or as a supplement to student note. Interactive notebooks are a great tool to keep students organized and engaged in the lesson!
These interactive notebooks are part of a larger BUNDLE of American History interactive notebooks & graphic organizers! Save 20% when you buy the bundle!
In this resource you will find…
• 24 graphic organizers: 22 with text on them, and 2 left blank for your own customization.
• 10 pages of thorough suggested answers that you are free to use with these graphic organizers and flippables.
• Previews of each page in action for you or your students to reference.
• A cover page and table of contents is also included.
1. Key vocabulary – civil rights movement, segregation, nonviolence, civil disobedience, NAACP, Black Panthers, Kerner Commission, Freedom Summer, boycott, De Jure Segregation, De Facto Segregation, black codes
2. Leaders – Ruby Bridges, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X
3. Jim Crow laws – when they began, grandfather clause, end of Jim Crow
4. Brown v. Board of Education – arguments against segregation, ruling, resistance
5. Emmett Till – encounter with Carolyn Bryant, lynching, funeral & reaction, trial, later events
6. Montgomery bus boycott – Rosa Parks, the boycott, Martin Luther King Jr., working together, backlash, duration, results
7. Little Rock Nine – integration, Little Rock Nine, first day of school, armed escort, attending school, results
8. Sit-ins – NAACP youth council, purpose, first sit-ins, results
9. Freedom Riders – purpose, CORE, danger, freedom rides, results
10. Birmingham Campaign – planning, project C, arrests, letter from Birmingham jail, youth protests, agreement, violence, results
11. March on Washington – purpose, plan, marchers, I have a dream speech, results
12. Martin Luther King Jr. – early life, Montgomery bus boycott, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, march on Washington, Selma voting rights, FBI & personal life, assassination, legacy
13. Malcolm X – early life, nation of Islam, after nation of Islam, pilgrimage & travel, death threats, assassination
14. Civil Rights Act of 1964 – John F. Kennedy, becoming law, main points
15. Harlem Riot of 1964 – purpose, people, location, riot, aftermath
16. Selma voting rights – MLK Jr. in Selma, Selma to Montgomery, Bloody Sunday
17. Voting Rights Act of 1965 – history, provisions, impact
18. Civil Rights Act of 1968 – context, types of discrimination, later changes
19. Kennedy administration – domestic policy, civil liberties, immigration, Native Americans, assassination
19. Johnson administration – Vice Presidency, becoming president, civil rights movement, immigration, education, war on poverty
Please view the preview for an in-depth look at what is included in this resource!
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