Inquiry and Understanding of the Civil Rights Era

The last unit in my VA/US history curriculum is Civil Rights/Modern Era. I would love to share primary sources to help give greater understanding to the Civil Rights movement in the United States. Again, many of us have already articulated the inability of our students to fully realize how not-so-long-ago this truly was.  The Library of Congress has many images I would like to share to spark our conversation.

 

One that I think would be a great starter  - with "observe, reflect, question"  I think I would cut off the top portion of this picture so they couldn't read the caption and let students have some time to individually observe before they share their observations and prior knowledge about the Civil Rights Era with the class corporately. Then together we could draw reflections/assumptions and ask questions about this picture - in hopes of propelling us further in inquiry and understanding surrounding Civil Rights Era. 

https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c30000/3c35000/3c35500/3c35522v.jpg


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