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Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching: A Teaching Guide for K-12 Classrooms is new and available from Teaching for Change and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council for $17. The book provides lessons and articles on how to "go beyond the heroes approach to the Civil Rights Movement."

Schools Service for Social Justice: Stories of Inspiration, Strategies for Implementation by Deborah Leta Habib is $14. The book profiles 11 school-based initiatives that link service learning, social justice and multicultural education.

Rethinking Schools
www.rethinkingschools.org

Reading, Writing and Rising Up: Teaching about Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word by Linda Chritensen is $13, and has essays, lesson plans and a collection of student writing all focused on language arts teaching for justice.

Rethinking our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice, Volumes I and II are $12.95 each or $19.95 for the set. These companion guides provide teaching ideas and examples of ways teachers can promote the values of community, justice and equality while building academic skills.

The organization's magazine, Rethinking Schools, provides quarterly reviews of new teaching ideas, policy analysis and resources. Subscribe for $17.95 a year.

Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students
www.carts.org

The Kid's Guide to Social Action: How to Solve the Social Problems You Choose and Turn Creative Thinking into Positive Action by Barbara A. Lewis is for grades 5 and up for $18.95. This practical guide for kids that covers how-to's in letter writing, interviewing, getting media attention and raising money also includes profiles of other kids doing great work and resources for moving forward.

The Civil Rights Movement for Kids: A History with 21 Activities by March C. Turck is for ages 9 and up, for $14.95. This book chronologically charts important dates in the Civil Rights movement and clearly defines terms, provides the text of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and suggests interactive activities for young learners to better understand how to apply their learning to the real world.

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration's Digital Classroom
www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/teaching_with_documents.html
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration's digital classroom section focusing on "teaching with documents" provides links to the actual historical documents in pdf format for study and suggests lesson plans for analyzing documents and their historical context. Check out the links for "Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education," "Frontiers in Civil Rights: The Dorothy Davis Case," "Court Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis Sanitation Workers," and "The Civil Rights Act and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission."

Facing History and Ourselves
www.facing.org

"For more than 27 years, Facing History has engaged teachers and students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry."

Facing History's website offers lesson plans to guide teachers in bringing tough subjects into the classroom. Current offerings include: the role of hate radio during the Rwandan genocide and a civil rights study tour where students and teachers can listen to some of the individuals who made a difference in the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Matters of Race
www.pbs.org/mattersofrace
This PBS series shown in September 2003 (and set to rebroadcast; check local listings) reconsiders the architecture of race, its role in our democracy and its relationship to power in the U.S. There is an accompanying Teacher's Guide created by Facing History.

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