Welcome Teachers!
The National Civil Rights Museum is committed to providing educators with resources and materials to aid them in teaching the struggle for freedom and justice to today’s students. Here you will find links to e-Learning activities, the NCRM Teacher’s Curriculum Guide, worksheets, primary source analysis guides, scavenger hunts, and much more.
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Exhibit-Related Lesson Plans for High School Educators
Unremitting Struggle (1619-1865)
“Project C” Birmingham – Confrontation (1963)
March on Washington (August 1963)
Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike (1968)
E-Learning 
Before the Boycott: This eLearning activity invites students to travel back in time and play the role of a school newspaper reporter assigned to ride the Montgomery, Alabama bus system in 1955. The purpose of the eLearning is to help students understand the complex and inconsistent rules of riding the bus during that period in history. Complete with photos, drop-down menus for glossary and historical references to transportation conditions, legal, social and economic differences between races, the response-driven survey of questions are part of a seven-stop bus tour illustrating ways African Americans were discriminated against. At the end of the assignment, the student is asked to describe his emotions and reactions to the humiliating bus tour. A customized human interest news story is generated from the perspective of the student’s responses. The activity is designed for middle school students but can be adapted for high school students.
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Teacher Resources
PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS
Artifact Analysis
Photo Analysis
Sound Recording Analysis
Written Documents Analysis
POST-VISIT MATERIALS
Elementary & Middle School Quiz
High School Quiz
ACTIVITIES
Character Traits Word Search
Crossword Puzzle
Heritage Poetry
Privilege Aptitude Test Guide for Teachers
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Brown v. Board of Education
Women of the Movement
For more educational resources, please contact our Education Department at (901) 521-9699.