Civil Rights in the United States: A Toolkit
More Resources:
General
The United States Constitution (Annotated)
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html
National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel (Memphis, TN)
https://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/
Is Race for Real?
(https://www.pbs.org/race/001_WhatIsRace/001_00-home.htm)
31 Children’s Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism, and Resistance (website list, 2019)
https://blog.usejournal.com/31-childrens-books-to-support-conversations-on-race-racism-and-resistance-9dbabc28360e
Center for Racial Justice Resources (reading lists)
https://centerracialjustice.org/resources/
Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PrAq4iBNb4nVIcTsLcNlW8zjaQXBLkWayL8EaPlh0bc/edit
Whiteness
The Construction of Whiteness ‘Seeing White” podcast (sceneonradio.org)
Peggy McIntosh, “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
http://www.nymbp.org/uploads/2/6/6/0/26609299/whiteprivilege.pdf
Intersectionality
Mapping Social Identities (worksheet and discussion activity. Print handouts (social identities wheel, cycle of socialization, do timeline activity)
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/inclusive-teaching/2017/08/24/mapping-social-identity-timeline-activity/
African Americans
The New Jim Crow (book), Michelle Alexander
1619 (2019, New York Times Magazine)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
1619 Podcast
1619 Curricular Project
https://pulitzercenter.org/builder/lesson/1619-project-curricular-materials-26514
March, John Lewis (graphic novel)
I Am Not Your Negro (documentary, Netflix, 1 hr 33 mins)
“Love is the message, the message is death” (Arthur Jafa, video, 7 mins)
https://youtu.be/D1McJ8cci3Y
Black Lives Matter syllabus
Civil Rights History (syllabus), Boston University, 2017
http://www.bu.edu/history/files/2017/01/HI-299-Syllabus-Spring-2017.pdf
Native Americans
Ramona Bennett
https://blogs.uw.edu/tchp/2017/10/ramona-bennett-puyallup-tribal-indian-activist/
The Blackwell Companion to American Indian History, ed. Philip Deloria and Neal Salisbury
Teachers’ Guide, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (for Young People)
http://www.beacon.org/assets/clientpages/IndigenousHistoryYAtg.aspx
Kurtis Lee, “Native women are vanishing across the U.S.” (Newspaper article, Los Angeles Times, January 2020)
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-01-31/murdered-missing-native-american-women
“Why Do So Many Native American Women Go Missing?” (CNN article with 3-minute video)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/09/us/native-american-murdered-missing-women/index.html
Missing Murdered Indigenous Womxn, Girls, and 2-Spirit
https://www.csvanw.org/mmiw/
The Standing Rock Syllabus
https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/
Knowledge 360, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
https://americanindian.si.edu/
LGBTQ
A Queer History of the United States for Young People, Teacher’s Guide
http://www.beacon.org/assets/clientpages/QueerHistoryYAtg.aspx
“The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies”
(1995 documentary, 100 minutes, available on YouTube for rental or purchase)
Brick by Brick: The LGBTQ Advocacy Curriculum (7th-9th graders, National Women’s Law Center)
https://nwlc.org/resources/brick-by-brick-the-lgbtq-advocacy-curriculum/
People with Disabilities
7 Documentaries to watch after ‘Crip Camp’
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/05/04/7-documentaries-to-watch-after-crip-camp/
Solidarity Is, podcast syllabus, May 2018
https://dc491f07-4030-4f6f-8ab3-eec10c1fc234.filesusr.com/ugd/70923b_a3f680cff97b4e8e850c31291b27de3e.pdf
Sins Invalid Study Guide
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bed3674f8370ad8c02efd9a/t/5c305c924d7a9c0f3df31164/1546673314833/study+guide_questions_02_14-1.pdf
“Patient No More” (documentary/exhibit on disability and civil rights)
https://longmoreinstitute.sfsu.edu/patient-no-more
Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History
“Disability was a significant factor in the three great citizenship debates of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: women’s suffrage, African American freedom and civil rights, and the restriction of immigration.”
Latinx
Joy Revolution (Gabby Rivera podcast)
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts–Culture-Podcasts/Joy-Revolution-p1310288/
Under the Feet of Jesús (novel), Helena Maria Viramontes
Zoot Suit (novel), Luis Valdez
“American Me” (film about the Zoot Suit riots)
“A Day Without a Mexican” (satire film)
Social Justice Curriculum for Children of Color (Chicana Motherwork)
https://www.chicanamotherwork.com/summer-2020
Asian Americans
Viral Histories: Stories of Racism and Resilience in Asian American Communities
https://americanhistory.si.edu/events/viral-histories-stories-racism-resilience-and-resistance-asian-american-communities
Asian American 1968, community history of the 1968 Asian American movement
https://aam1968.blogspot.com/2008/01/introduction-to-asian-american-movement.html
What Do Asian Americans Owe the Civil Rights Movement? (NPR interview, 2015)
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=214833622
“Resistance at Tule Lake” (documentary)
“Who Killed Vincent Chin?” (Documentary)
“Conscience and the Constitution” (documentary)
Tadaima! Japanese American Community Pilgrimage virtual viewing on July 4, 2020 with director and producer Frank Abe
Dear America: Notes from an Undocumented Citizen (Young Reader’s Edition) Jose Antonio Vargas (memoir)
Grapes of Wrath: The Forgotten Filipinos Who Led A Farmworker Revolution (NPR, audio and article, 2015) https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/16/440861458/grapes-of-wrath-the-forgotten-filipinos-who-led-a-farmworker-revolution
“Why It’s Important to Know The Story of Filipino American Larry Itliong” (Smithsonian Magazine, article with video)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-it-is-important-know-story-filipino-american-larry-itliong-180972696/
Cross-racial histories and relationships
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (book, Mae Ngai, 2004)
Marina Fang, “How Asian Americans Are Addressing Anti-Blackness in their Families” (Huffington Post article)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anti-blackness-asian-americans_n_5ed87ca8c5b6ea15610b5774
Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/black-and-asian-feminist-solidarities-a-reading-list
Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter—HerStory of the movement
https://blacklivesmatter.com/herstory/
“Through line: American Police” (NPR, interview, 1 hr 5 minutes. Transcript available at link below.)
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/869046127/american-police
Art and Social Change
Library of Congress, “Songs of Social Change”
https://www.loc.gov/collections/songs-of-america/articles-and-essays/historical-topics/songs-of-social-change/
Taking Action, Getting Involved
Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism
Add Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It (book), by Jamie Margolin, 2020
Prison Abolition
8 can’t wait vs. 8 to abolition
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/10/ruth-wilson-gilmore-makes-the-case-for-abolition
Teenage Activists
Malala Yousazafi, Greta Thunberg
(See: Teen Vogue)