Unit Pack: The US Civil Rights Movement

Go Beyond the Timeline: Teach the Complexity, Strategy, and Unfinished Struggle for Civil Rights.

The US Civil Rights Movement is one of the most vital (and often simplified) units in the modern history curriculum. How do you move beyond the textbook summary to teach the deep strategy, difficult choices, and lasting debate that defined this pivotal era?

The US Civil Rights Movement Unit Pack, part of The Human History Project’s Ready, Click, Teach series, provides a complete, 6-lesson program to transform your instruction. This pack empowers students to analyze the movement's successes, evaluate its limits, and understand the powerful tension between nonviolent protest and calls for self-defense.

Purchase once, and you are licensed to use this comprehensive, user-friendly digital package with all of your students, year after year.

Why This Unit Pack is Essential for Your Classroom

This unit is meticulously structured to facilitate rigorous historical analysis and ethical reasoning, ensuring your students engage with the content at a higher level.

• Master Historical Skills: The unit is built around essential skills
  • Analyzing Multiple Perspectives: The cornerstone project requires students to investigate a key protest from the viewpoint of Protesters, Government/Authorities, Media/Public, and Opponents
  • Evaluating Success and Limits: Students critically evaluate the movement by discussing both its achievements (Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965) and its lasting challenges (economic inequality, ongoing racism)
  • Comparing Competing Ideologies: Dedicated readings and activities explore and compare the strategies of Martin Luther King Jr. (nonviolence, legal change) and Malcolm X (self-defense, economic self-determination)
• Comprehensive Coverage of Key Topics: The lessons move chronologically
  • Life Before the Movement: Segregation, Jim Crow Laws, and Reconstruction
  • Grassroots Activism: The story and impact of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • The Path to Law: How mass protest led to federal legislation
  • The Debate Within: The different visions for equality and change

What's Included in Your Instant Download?

You receive a complete, ready-to-teach package for a 6-lesson unit:

• Teaching Slides
• Lesson Plans (6 lessons).
• Unit Revision Guide (A concise, print-ready document covering all key concepts and events)
• Unit Assessment (Multiple choice and critical thinking questions to assess deep understanding)
• Unit Project Guide & Rubric (The "One Protest, Many Perspectives" project)
• Ready-to-Use Worksheets for Core Topics

Ready to facilitate a balanced, complex, and essential study of the US Civil Rights Movement? Click "Add to Cart" and bring this unit to your students today!