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| Title: | Civil Rights Movement for Kids
: A History with 21 Activities |
| Series: | (For Kids Series) |
| Author: | Mary C Turck |
| ISBN: | 155652370X : 9781556523700 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 280x215mm |
| Pages: | 208 |
| Weight: | .585 Kg. |
| Published: | IPG (Chicago Review Press) - June 2000 |
| List Price: | 9.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Teaching of a specific subject: Human & civil rights: USA |
For ages 9-12. Surprisingly, kids were some of the key instigators in the Civil Rights Movement, like Barbara Johns, who held a rally in her elementary school gym that eventually led to the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court school desegregation decision, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who was the first black student to desegregate elementary schools in New Orleans. In The Civil Rights Movement for Kids, children will discover how students and religious leaders worked together to demand the protection of civil rights for black Americans. They will relive the fear and uncertainty of Freedom Summer and learn how northern white college students helped bring national attention to atrocities committed in the name of segregation, and they'll be inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X. Activities include: re-enacting a lunch counter sit-in; organising a workshop on non-violence; holding a freedom film festival followed by a discussion; and organising a choral group to sing the songs that motivated the foot soldiers in this war for rights.
