This unit plan brackets the free, virtual Making a Change NewseumED class with pre- and post-visit classroom activities and supplemental materials. Through these experiences, students will use primary sources to experience what it was like to live through the height of the civil rights movement, draw connections between the five freedoms of the First Amendment and the tactics used by civil rights protesters, and explore the movement’s ongoing legacy.
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