March on Washington.  African American Odyssey.  Library of Congress
"I Have a Dream,"
A Civil Rights Movement Pathfinder

GENERAL INFORMATION

Name: Angel Chaffin
School: Liberty Junior School
Workshop Location: Kings Mills, Ohio
Title of Companion Action Plan: "I Have a Dream," A Language Arts and Social Studies Collaberative
Grade Level: Seventh Grade
Curriculum/Subject Area: Language Arts, Social Studies
Specific Topic: The key events, people, and groups involved in the Civil Rights Movement


CONTENT INFORMATION

Brief Summary of the Topic/Pathfinder: Students will learn the key people, including: Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, and the key events, such as: the Montgomery Bus Boycott and The March on Washington that shaped the Civil Rights Movement.

Dewey Numbers: 323; 342; 322.4

Sears Subject Headings: Civil rights-United States; African-Americans-Civil rights;
Blacks-Civil rights; Children-Civil rights; Civil rights demonstrations


CONTENT CATEGORIES

Books (Fiction):

Crowe, Chris. Mississippi Trial. P. Fogelman Books, 2002.

Curtis, Christopher. The Watsons Go to Birmingham. Bantam Doubleday Dell Books
for Young Readers, 1995.

Davis, Ossie. Just Like Martin. Puffin Books, 1995.

Moore, Yvette. Freedom Songs. Puffin Books, 1992.

Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux. Beyond Mayfield. G. P. Putnam's, 1999.

Rodman, Mary Ann. Yankee Girl. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2004.


Books (Nonfiction):

Allen, Zita. Black Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.
Franklin Watts, 1996.

Altman, Linda Jacobs. The American Civil Rights Movement: The African-American
Struggle for Equality. Enslow, 2004.

Archer, Jules. They Had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle, From Frederick Douglass
to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Puffin, 1996.

Civil Rights. Greenhaven Press, Thomson/Gale, 2002.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964. Greenhaven Press, Thomson/Gale, 2004.

Crowe, Chris. Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case.
P. Fogelman Books, 2003.

Rhym, Darren. THE NAACP. Chelsea House, 2002.

Dunn, John M. The Civil Rights Movement. Lucent Books, 1998.

Fremon, David K. The Jim Crow Laws and Racism in American History. Enslow
Publishers, 2000.

Fradin, Dennis B. Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.
Clarion Books, 2000.

Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Bantam, 1971.

Gogerly, Liz. The Dream of Martin Luther King: August 28, 1963. Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 2004.

Haskins, James. Freedom Rides: Journey for Justice. Just Us Books, 2000.

Haskins, James. I Have a Dream: The Life and Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Millbrook Press, 1992.

Howard, Melanie A. The Civil Rights Marches. Abdo Publishing, 2004.

Hull, Mary. Rosa Parks. Chelsea House, 1994.

Jakoubek, Robert E. Martin Luther King, Jr. Chelsea House, 1989.

King, Casey. Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement With the
People Who Made It Happen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Meltzer, Milton. There Comes a Time: The Struggle for Civil Rights. Random
House, 2001.

Parks, Rosa. Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue With Today's Youth. Lee & Low Books, 1996.

Patterson, Charles. The Civil Rights Movement. Facts on File, 1995.

Rasmussen, R. Kent. Farewell to Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of Segregation in
America. Facts on File, 1997.

Rowh, Mark. Thurgood Marshall: Civil Rights Attorney and Supreme Court
Justice. Enslow, 2002.

Seidman, David. Civil Rights. Rosen, 2001.

Taylor, Kimberly Hayes. Black Civil Rights Champions. Oliver Press, 1995.
Vernell, Marjorie. Leaders of Black Civil Rights. Lucent Books, 2000.

Walsh, Frank. The Montgomery Bus Boycott. World Almanac Library, 2003.

Weber, Michael. Causes and Consequences of the African American Civil Rights
Movement. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1998.

Whitelaw, Nancy. Mr. Civil Rights: The Story of Thurgood Marshall. Morgan Reynolds
Publishing, 2003.

Wilson, Camilla. Rosa Parks: From the Back of the Bus to the Front of a Movement.
Scholastic, 2001.


Reference Books:

American Civil Rights. UXL, 1999.

The Civil Rights Movement. Salem Press, 2000.

Profiles in American History. Volume 8, Civil Rights Movement to the Present. UXL, 1995.


Media Resources

Videos

Our Friend, Martin. 1999. Twentieth Century Fox, 2004.

Memphis Dreams: Innocence and Rebellion. ABC News, 1999.

Memphis Dreams: Searching for the Promised Land. ABC News, 1999.

Separate But Equal. Dir. George Stevens Jr. 1991. Videocassette. Republic Studios,
2003.


INFOhio Electronic Resources

Annals of American History. INFOhio. 30 April 2004. <www.infohio.org>.

American National Biography. INFOhio. 30 April 2004. <www.infohio.org>.

EBSCOhost. INFOhio. 30 April 2004. <www.infohio.org>.



EBSCOhost Articles

Gourley, Catherine. "They Risked Their Lives to Fight Justice." Writing.
(February/March 2004): 4-9. EBSCOhost. Liberty Junior Library,
30 April 2004.
EBSCOhost
Websites

African American Odyssey: A Quest For Full Citizenship. October 21, 2002.
Library of Congress. 30 April 2004. <http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/>.

We Shall Overcome; Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement.
National Park Service. 30 April 2004. <http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/>.
You can view the websites listed above by clicking the following links:
African American Odyssey
We Shall Overcome:
Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement