Tag: Civil Rights
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Montgomery Bus Boycott booklist
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…
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California: Cesar Chavez
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…
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Alabama: Last Mule of Gee Bend
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…
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Greensboro sit-ins lesson
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…
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How Martin Luther King jr. inspires kids today
As part of looking up different things about the state of Georgia I found out that Martin Luther King Jr. is from there. So, was Jackie Robinson, but I ended up deciding to study Jackie Robinson for New York, since that’s where the team he played for was from. Ahhh the tricky questions you have…