In this multimedia resource, there are teaching guides and a 60-minute video to aid students in exploring the story of Wisconsin civil rights activist Vel Phillips and the struggles she undertook to build a better community. In this 7:30 minute clip, students will learn how Phillips continued to fight for equity and justice after her political career ended.
In this resource based on the video Becoming Visible, students will explore questions, author background, and select projects from a variety of activities.
In this resource based on the video Becoming Visible, students will understand how ethnic writers in America transformed traditional literary conventions and the hallmarks of Native American, Jewish American, and African American literature.
In this resource based on the video Becoming Visible, students will view literary works in the context of the civil rights events that were happening from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Students will look at how the backdrop of the Cold War, the Space Race, and the rise of consumerism and globalization brought us from huge, expensive codebreaking machines in teh 1940s to affordable handhelds and personal computers in the 1970s.
There are teaching guides and a 60 minute video to aid students in exploring the story of Wisconsin civil rights activist Vel Phillips and the struggles she undertook to build a better community. This 3:34 min film clip focuses on how Phillips was elected to the Democratic National Convention in 1958.
Students will explore the civil liberties issues surrounding the militarization of the police. This resource included three clips: "Clip 1: Concord, New Hampshire," "Clip 2: Ferguson, Missouri," and "Clip 3:Raid."
In this resource from PBS, students will explore the civil liberties issues surrounding the militarization of the police. This lesson includes research, exploration of the Posse Comitatus Act, and the 1033 program.
In this multimedia resource, there are teaching guides and a 60-minute video to aid students in exploring the story of Wisconsin civil rights activist Vel Phillips and the struggles she undertook to build a better community. In this 1:08 minute clip, students will be introduced to Phillips and her early life and family.
In this multimedia resource, there are teaching guides and a 60-minute video to aid students in exploring the story of Wisconsin civil rights activist Vel Phillips and the struggles she undertook to build a better community. This 7:37 min film clip focuses on how Phillips opened a law office and was elected to the the Milwaukee Common Council.
In this multimedia resource, there are teaching guides and a 60-minute video to aid students in exploring the story of Wisconsin civil rights activist Vel Phillips and the struggles she undertook to build a better community. This resource links to the full, 60 minute vide of Vel Phillips: Dream Big Dreams. For individual clips, see additional resources in the NCLOR.
There are teaching guides and a 60 minute video to aid students explore the story of Wisconsin civil rights activist Vel Phillips and the struggles she undertook to build a better community. This 3:40 min film clip focuses on how Phillips experienced discrimination during college and met her husband, Dale.
In this multimedia resource, there are teaching guides and a 60-minute video to aid students in exploring the story of Wisconsin civil rights activist Vel Phillips and the struggles she undertook to build a better community. In this 3:34 minute clip, students will be given an overview of Phillips' and her accomplishments.
In this multimedia resource, there are teaching guides and a 60-minute video to aid students in exploring the story of Wisconsin civil rights activist Vel Phillips and the struggles she undertook to build a better community. This 2:40 min film clip focuses on how Phillips and her husband faced discrimination while attending law school.
Students will analyze, evaluate, and compare/contrast the findings of the Kerner Commission of 1967 and the Ferguson Commission of 2015.
In this multimedia resource, there are teaching guides and a 60-minute video to aid students in exploring the story of Wisconsin civil rights activist Vel Phillips and the struggles she undertook to build a better community. This 12:16 min film clip focuses on how Phillips was arrested for rallying for equal housing.
In this resource based on the video Poetry of Liberation, students will explore discussion questions, author background, and projects.
In this resource based on the video Poetry of Liberation, students will be able to discuss the political, historical, and social contexts of postwar poetry, particularly the counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s.
In this resource, students will get an overview that explores the innovations made in American poetry in the 1960s by Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, and Adrienne Rich discussed in the video Poetry of Liberation.
In this multimedia resource, there are teaching guides and a 60-minute video to aid students in exploring the story of Wisconsin civil rights activist Vel Phillips and the struggles she undertook to build a better community. This 3:11 min film clip focuses on how Milwaukee residents were not allowed to buy housing in certain neighborhoods due to segregation.