Teach It!

During the lesson, the teacher and students will read White Water aloud. As they read, students will investigate how one young boy's curiosity leads him to discover that the water from a segregated White drinking fountain tastes the same as the water from the Black drinking fountain.

During the lesson, students will follow along as the teacher and students read Ruth and the Green Book to examine how a young child with strong character traits (e.g. brave, thoughtful, resilient) overcame segregation while traveling with her family.

Before the end of legal slavery in the United States, free African Americans migrated to Canada to find greater security and liberty. After the Civil War, some returned to the U.S. to aid emancipated people and rebuild the South. Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a business woman, abolitionist, and suffragist.

Meet Dr. Manassa T. Pope, an African-American doctor and entrepreneur in the early 20th century, and learn about his efforts to gain civil rights well before the modern Civil Rights Movement.

How can sports and popular culture influence public opinion? Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball to changes hearts, minds, and American law.

Learn how people in Selma, Alabama, and national civil rights organizations worked together to end the unconstitutional denial of voting rights to African Americans in the South.

How can sports and popular culture change public opinion? What historic place might you study to answer this question? Jackie Robinson and his Florida namesake hold clues.

Learn about the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down "separate but equal".

During WWI, African American Colonel Charles Young rode horseback for two weeks to protest discrimination in the U.S. Army.

Learn how three buildings restored and maintained by the U.S. General Services Administration illustrate the important role the federal government played and continues to play in communities across the country.