5 M1 - Stories of Human Rights

Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

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Copies: 7

In 1964, Mississippi civil rights groups banded together to fight Jim Crow laws in a state where only 6.4 percent of eligible black voters were registered. Testing a bold new strategy, they recruited students from across the United States. That summer these young volunteers defied segregation by living with local black hosts, opening Freedom Schools to educate disenfranchised adults and their children, and canvassing door-to-door to register voters.

Author:

Susan Goldman Rubin

Lexile:

980L

Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

Nelson Mandela

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This is the story of a young boy who grew up to become president of South Africa. His lifelong quest was to establish equality for people of all colors.

Author:

Kadir Nelson

Grade Level:

Elementary

Length:

00:10

Coretta Scott

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This extraordinary union of poetic text by Ntozake Shange and monumental artwork by Kadir Nelson captures the movement for civil rights in the United STates and honors its most elegant inspiration,

Author:

Ntozake Shange

Grade Level:

Elementary

Length:

00:07

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)

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UNFORGIVABLE BLACKNESS: THE RISE AND FALL OF JACK JOHNSON tells the story of the first African-American boxer to win the most coveted title in all of sports and his struggle, in and out of the ring, to live his life as a free man.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

03:40

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Black Like Me (2012)

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In 1964, just as Washington was passing the Civil Rights Act, some of Hollywood's most passionate activists interpreted John Howard Griffin's brave chronicle Black Like Me for the screen, with James Whitmore starring as the writer, who, in 1959, medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his

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Middle

High

Length:

1964

Time of Fear (2004)

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In World War II more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and relocate to military camps dotted across the western United States. TIME OF FEAR tells the story of the 16,000 men, women, and children who were sent to two relocation camps in southeast Arkansas--one of the poorest and most racially segregated places in America.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:00

Water on the Table (2010)

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The campaign to have water declared a human right was dramatically advanced at the United Nations on July 28, 2010, when a large majority voted for a resolution to recognize the human right to water and sanitation. Canada, the US, and 39 other countries abstained.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:19

With All Deliberate Speed: A look at the landmark Brown vs. The Board of Education (2005)

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History Ignored is History Repeated

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education that the concept of "separate but equal" school segregation was unconstitutional. But in this landmark ruling, the Justices used a four-word phrase that many believe has delayed the process of change for over 50 years: "With All Deliberate Speed."

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:51

With All Deliberate Speed: A look at the landmark Brown vs. The Board of Education

The Abolitionists (2013)

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Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy--these passionate anti-slavery activists fought body and soul in the most important civil rights crusade in American history.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

03:00

Aaron Shepard's RT Page

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Here are resources for reader’s theater (or readers theatre)—including the acclaimed series of free scripts Reader’s Theater Editions—all from children’s author Aaron Shepard. If you’re looking for a perfect combination of education and fun, this is it!

5 M1 - Stories of Human Rights

Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

Nelson Mandela

Coretta Scott

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)

Black Like Me (2012)

Time of Fear (2004)

Water on the Table (2010)

With All Deliberate Speed: A look at the landmark Brown vs. The Board of Education (2005)

The Abolitionists (2013)

Aaron Shepard's RT Page

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