Educational Resources
We created this guide to connect teachers and families to relevant information about the history of the Civil Rights movement in Baltimore and around the country.
If you have suggestions for more resources or ideas for how we can improve this guide, please get in touch.
Baltimore & Maryland Resources
- Teacher’s Resources - Reginald F. Lewis Museum
- Blockbusting: Social and Economic Change through Real Estate - UMBC Center for History Education
- Is Baltimore Burning? - Maryland State Archives Documents for the Classroom
- Paul Henderson Photographs - Maryland Historical Society
- Baltimore Syllabus started by iteach4change
- Baltimore Syllabus via Ernest J. Gaines
- How Did a Multi-Racial Movement Develop in the YWCA in Baltimore, 1883-1926?
Resources for Teachers
- Civil Rights Teaching - Teaching for Change
- Reader Ideas - Teaching the Movement - New York Times
- Teaching the Movement - Southern Poverty Law Center
- Civil Rights (Themed Resources) - Library of Congress
- Documents from the Civil Rights Era - Teaching American History
- Civil Rights and Racial Healing - Teaching with Historic Places (National Park Service)
- We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary - National Park Service
- Civil Right Movement Veterans - Primary sources curated by Civil Rights movement participants
- Lesson Plans on “Civil Rights Movements” - Zinn Project for Education
- Educator Resources - Facing History and Ourselves
- Classroom Resources - Teaching Tolerance
- Perspectives for a Diverse America - Teaching Tolerance
- FergusonSyllabus for Teaching About State Violence
Resources for Families
- Anti-Bias Curriculum - Teaching for Change
- Parent Organizing - Teaching for Change
- Books on Prejudice & Discrimination - A Mighty Girl
- Civil Rights Activity Book - Teaching Tolerance