Students will gain background information on the history of voting rights and the Selma to Montgomery March of 1965. Additionally, students will focus on current issues in voiting rights and what can be done to ensure that all people have the ability to exercise their right to vote.

In this lesson, students examine the use of numerous, strict rules in Singapore society and whether this is an "ideal existence" or an abuse of human rights. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students will discuss the question: Should the United States become more like Singapore?.

In this resource from The Lowdown: Connectiong Newsroom to Classroom from KQED News, students will look at the Newark, NJ and Detroit riots in 1967. Students will watch videos about the riots and explore the Kerner Commission and its role in investigating the causes of civil unrest. An accompanying pdf lesson plan, "Police, Race, and Unrest in America's Cities," is hyperlinked in the sidebar. Students will consider how the historical riots connect to the current issues in America, with a focus on Ferguson.

Students will explore the issue of civil liberties by researching court cases in order to discuss and understand their rights. Worksheets, rubrics, and reading strategies included in this multi-day lesson from ReadWriteThink.org.

This lesson about the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission addresses the following essential questions: Can different perspectives of the same event be true simultaneously? Is the truth defined by facts alone? Does perception shape the truth? Can the truth ever be fully known?

In this resource from The Lowdown: Connectiong Newsroom to Classroom from KQED News, students will examine the goals and outcomes of the March on Washington in 1963 and evaluate the current state of economic disparities between black and white Americans.

In this 41 page pdf unit on African-Americans in the Land of Equality from Digital History, students will explore primary sources, investigate seminal court cases, and examine segregation issues in both northern and southern schools. Additionally, students will study the Watts rioting, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X's philosophies, and lastly, discuss affirmative action.

In this lesson, students review the history of immigration quotas in the United States and the issue of how to assist Jewish refugees in the time of WWII. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students role play a meeting between President Roosevelt and members of his cabinet where they will review 5 proposals concerning the issue of aid to Jews during the war.

In this unit from the Standford University The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute students develop a broader understanding of the struggle for equality from 1868 to the present by exploring first-person narratives from a diverse group of Americans. Beginning with a study of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, students determine the criteria for identifying an event as historically significant. Students then explore the impact of the struggle for equality by interviewing people in their community and utilizing resources such as Toni Morrison’s Remember: The Journey to School Integration, Voices of Civil Rights, a national oral history project by the Library of Congress, and StoryCorps, an independent non-profit project that focuses on oral history collections of individuals’ life experiences.

Students will explore the diference between the right to vote versus the ability to vote, and study the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Additionally, students will reflect on 20th century voting rights and explore how the past informs present issues in voting access.