Resources for Activities

View Speeches

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—I Have a Dream Speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWcPz3TvtCg

Malcolm X—“Who Taught You to Hate Yourself?”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWcPz3TvtCg

Interactive Websites

Civil Rights Webquest

http://bcsd.k12.ny.us/middle/lmc/CivilRightsWebQuest/Intro.htm

Civil Rights Website (Exploring as an introduction)

http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/

Listening to a Rap

http://www.educationalrap.com/song/civil-rights-movement/

Read

Students will discuss in literature circles the different poems and speeches.

Fredrick Douglas—“The Hypocrisy of American Slavery”

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/douglass-hypo.asp

Langston Hughes—“A Dream Deferred”

http://www.cswnet.com/~menamc/langston.htm

Langston Huges—“Dreams”

http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/dreams/dreams.html

Maya Angelou—“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”

http://allpoetry.com/poem/8511445-I_Know_Why_The_Caged_Bird_Sings-by-Maya_Angelou