Civil Rights broadens middle school students’ abilities to research, present, and document their studies of American civil rights and outline the challenges that lay ahead for the rights and freedoms of all Americans.

Students will:

• Understand the meaning of civil rights in America and the contributions different social movements have made to our democracy.
• Conduct independent research using primary source documents and identify bias inherent in the “telling” of our history.
• Apply lessons learned from historic struggles to emerging civil rights challenges that face our country.

Voices and Choices: Civil Rights was developed with financial support from The US Department of Education and The JP Morgan Chase Foundation.