This hour and a half episode of Teaching Hard History, a podcast produced by Teaching Tolerance, features host Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries (Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University) in conversation with Dr. Charles L. Hughes (a historian, author, and the Director of the Lynne and Henry Turley Memphis Center at Rhodes College). The pair reflects on how music serves as a narrative...

The Atlanta History Center's vast virtual portfolio prides itself on "connecting history and your hard drive." One of the Center's virtual projects is the Civil Rights Toolkit, a great addition to classrooms (and perfect for caregivers, too). The toolkit focuses on young people, celebrating their role as "changemakers," and the various activities are designed to accommodate several grade levels....

The Wisconsin Historical Society has one of the nation’s richest collections of items documenting the Civil Rights movement, particularly as they relate to the 1964 Freedom Summer Project. Visitors to the site can look over the Historical Essay to get started, as it contains a short summary of the importance of these events, then move on to Browse Related Topics. Here, visitors will find links to...

"How did Baldwin use his art form--his writing--as a form of political protest to shape the objectives of the civil rights movement and extend its reach to the LGBT community?" This question is among those explored in James Baldwin: Art, Sexuality, and Civil Rights. The lesson plan explores the life of the writer and activist and relates his work to larger themes of gender-justice, sexuality, and...

Partner organizations including The New Georgia Encyclopedia, the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services have joined forces to create the very impressive Civil Rights Digital Library (CRDL). The intent of the CRDL is to promote an "enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover...

Stanford University has been the home of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project for over twenty years, and they also have the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. On their website, visitors can learn about their work, which includes sponsoring conferences, providing research fellowships, and developing the Liberation curriculum for educators interested in nonviolent...

During her long life, Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator, social activist, and prominent leader in the women's rights movement. This latest installment in the National Park Service's "Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plans" centers on her council House in Washington, D.C., and is a fine resource for history teachers and those with a general interest in American history. The Council House...

History teachers may enjoy this short classroom activity, "The Suffrage and the Civil Rights Reform Movements," which invites students to "compare and contrast" two pictures from civil rights movements that were created nearly five decades apart. The first picture is from "a [1917] Bastille Day march for women's suffrage," while the second image encapsulates "the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs...