Tag: Civil Rights

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott booklist

    Montgomery Bus Boycott booklist

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    Sometimes life creates an odd confluence of events. A little over a month ago we studied the Civil Rights movement in our history lessons. We learned all about Rosa Park and the Montgomery Bus boycott. Then about a week or so ago we learned all about Alabama in our geography lessons, which you know is…

  • California: Cesar Chavez

    California: Cesar Chavez

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    Hi! Future Ticia 2024 here, I’m updating this old history lesson. We first learned about Cesar Chavez for our California Unit, but we had another Cesare Chavez lesson in high school as we learned about the Civil Rights movement, as he was a smaller figure in those events. I’ll return you to past Ticia 2013…

  • Alabama: Last Mule of Gee Bend

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      I learned something with this particular book, actually there are a couple of books about Gee’s Bend by this author/illustrator, but still I learned from them.   I learned there were many ways people were affected by the Civil Rights movements and how they worked to change how life was.   In Gee’s Bend…

  • Mississippi: Freedom School Yes!

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    Every now and then I run into a book that is wonderful, but doesn’t easily lend itself to an activity, but I still want to share it.  This is one of those books. Amazon.com Widgets   It tells the story of the Freedom Schools that happened in Mississippi back in the summer of 1964.  …

  • Greensboro sit-ins lesson

    Greensboro sit-ins lesson

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    All it takes for evil to prosper is for good men to remain silent. I’ve seen variations on this quote for years. I’ve seen it attributed to pretty much every famous figure from the last 100 years or so. Segregation is evil prospering because no one spoke up. As I put this history lesson together…