Cold War &

PostWar America

Lesson Ideas on the UN & UN Declaration of Human Rights

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New Frontier &

the Great Society

Viva La Causa focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights - the grape strike and boycott led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s.

The kit includes:

• 39-minute film on DVD
• Teacher's guide with standards-based lesson plans

Teachers can order this kit for free, and also available for checkout from the Curriculum Dept.

The African American Civil Rights Movement

• Lesson plan instructions
• Photoplacards Student Inference chart
• Civil Rights photos with descriptors

Black Separatism or the Beloved Community? Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. - Lesson Plan Two of the Curriculum Unit Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movementview_lesson_plan

• Lyndon Johnson & the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (.pdf) (from "Teaching with Primary Resources," The Social Studies Texas, (2008)

From Tonkin to War Powers, The American War in Vietnam 1954-1975
"A Dichotomy in U.S. Foreign Policy
- Focus, Separation of Powers and Consent of the Governed".doc

• Photo Story.wmv
• Photo Story Annotated References.doc
  

[Lesson designed by Melinda Lemke; M.Ed., as part of the Teaching American History grant project, The Relevant Constitution.]