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.
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