No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’ve died for. – Martin Luther King Jr.

For the month of black history, we will began reading books such as, The Civil Rights Movement: Revised Edition, The King Years: Historic Movements in the Civil Rights Movement, and Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Graphic History of the Civil Rights Movement)—recounting the extraordinary and often bloody story of how thousands of ordinary African Americans overcame long odds to dethrone segregation, to exercise their right to vote and to improve their economic standing. The animated film, Our Friend Martin, will allow children to interact with history as it presents racial tensions and stereotypes during the Civil Rights Movement. However, that did not capture the essence of the Civil Rights Movement. According to NEA, educational trips have a positive, lasting impact on education and career because the trips make students more engaged, intellectually curious and interested in and out of school. In an attempt to promote students’ understanding of the importance of the Civil Rights Museum, I propose to you a field trip to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.

Standard:SS5H8 The student will describe the importance of key people and developments between 1950-1975

b. Explain the key events and people of the Civil Rights Movement, include Brown vs. Board of Education (1954), the Montgomery Bus Boycott the March on Washington, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and civil rights activities of Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Content Objective:I will describe the importance of key people and events IOT explain the developments of the Civil Rights Movement between 1950-1975.

The Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies for fifth grade include objectives that focuses on historical understandings that details that a student must describe the importance of key events and people of the Civil Rights Movement. The National Center For Civil and Human Rights includes the history of the Civil Rights Movement that detail the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the story of Martin Luther King from his youth to his assassination, Jim Crow Laws, Brown vs. Board of Education, and etc. Students will get to experience what it was like to be a nonviolent protester participating in the lunch counter sit-ins, view footage of Martin Luther King’s speech and his personal belongings, and read written copies of Martin Luther King’s letters from the Birmingham jail.

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