In this lesson plan, students will study the history of the Freedom Summer project and explore the challenges to voting rights in the United States today. Students will explore two readings and answer discussion questions.

In this lesson, students review the history of turmoil in Haiti and the issue the U.S. faced in how to assist Haitian refugees during the 1990s. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students will write down their opinion on the issue and then work with a small group to brainstorm possible actions the UN and the U.S. could take regarding the Haitian refugees.

This curriculum unit from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute is designed to help students explore the essential question of "How has fear threatened freedom over time, with special emphasis on the Cold War and the McCarthy Era?" Each student will be able to evaluate the effect of fear on civil liberties, with special emphasis on the Fifth Amendment, and will be able to connect the Cold War and McCarthyism with current events.

In this lesson students will determine the importance of activism and change within their own and other communities through peer-to-peer or small-group dialogue; begin to identify what determines action is needed in a community through a facilitated large-group dialogue; use dialogue to identify and describe issues within their own and other communities.

In this lesson, students will relate the past of U.S. immigration to the present media conversation through a thematic, domestic perspective. Through an analysis of political cartoons dealing with immigration and racism from the 19th century through the present, students will make inferences about the opinions, biases and fears of Americans of these periods relating to the social, political, and economic effects of immigration. After instruction and modeling of cartoon analysis, students will complete their own analysis in a small group, sharing this in discussion. Student groups will then, make and present their own political cartoon, promoting the stemming or continuance of American immigration.

In this lesson, students explore instances of segregated education around the world, supporting and refuting the idea through debate and persuasive essay.

In this ninth lesson from Teaching Tolerance's Curriculum Unit for The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, students will identify similarities and differences between Jim Crow and mass incarceration and reflect on connections between mass incarceration and their own lives and communities.

In this lesson plan from the Stanford Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, students will explore how the goals of the Civil Rights Movement are part of a global movment for human rights in the 20th century and beyond.

In this lesson plan from the Stanford Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, students will explore the global connection between the United States' civil rights movement and international momvements for human rights, such as ending apartheid in South Africa. Students will examine the roots and meaning of Human Rights Day.

Students will explore the role of women in the 1950s. Support materials include ddiscussion quesitons and a handout including discussion questions and a handout asking students to compare the life of women today versus the 1950s.

Students will analyze, evaluate, and compare/contrast the findings of the Kerner Commission of 1967 and the Ferguson Commission of 2015.

This resource is a collection of posters showing the struggles and triumphs of the life of Nelson Mandela. These posters are from around the world and show the international effort in dealing with South Africa in the late 20th Century.

In this resource from The Lowdown: Connecting Newsroom to Classroom from KQED News, students will examine the goals and demands of the March on Washington and the Civil Rights Movement and how they measure up today.

In this extensive Smithsonian National Youth Summit conversation kit filled with links, lessons, activities, interviews, and more, students will be immersed in the history of American abolition and consider these guiding questions: 1. How did abolitionists work to end slavery in the 19th-century? 2. How are today’s activists using the tactics of the 19th-century to continue the fight against human trafficking and
modern-day slavery? and 3. What can individuals and organizations do to end modern-day slavery?

In this extensive Smithsonian National Youth Summit toolkit filled with links, lessons, activities, interviews, and more, students will be immersed in the history of Freedom Summer and consider these guiding questions: 1. What are the lessons of Freedom Summer for today’s world? 2. Is Freedom Summer a template for social change? and 3. What can or cannot be achieved at the grassroots level?

Students will begin this high school social studies unit by exploring some of the issues connecting access to universal education and gender equality around the world by examining a variety of resources. After learning about some of these issues, students will choose an issue that they want to help solve. They will create fundraising and advocacy goals as part of a global project, to be supported and evaluated by the teacher.

Students will examine the goals of the Civil Rights March on Washington and reflect on how far American civil rights have come, as well as where they still need to improve.

In this lesson from PBS NewsHour Extra, students will examine the goals of the Civil Rights March on Washington and reflect on how far American civil rights have come, as well as where they still need to improve.

This lesson compares civil and racial inequality during the Civil Rights movement with inequality in the present. Students will examine prison population statistics to gain an understanding of the issues with America's mass incarceration system. They will chose an event and write a newspaper article about it that describes the event and its significance. Students will then choose a present day related event that connects with the article they chose from the Civil Rights movement. Students will reflect and make connections between civil and racial inequalities that have been reoccurring in America's present day society to the civil injustices that occurred during the Civil Rights era.

In this lesson, students review the history of providing and/or denying asylum to refugees seeking to enter the United States. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students adopt the role of the Board of Immigration Appeals and work collaboratively to review a case study to decide whether the involved individual qualifies for asylum.