Civil Rights Project
Extra! Extra! Students become investigative reports into the Civil Rights Movement in this engaging, inquiry-based newspaper activity. Can your students make the deadline? Working in groups, students investigate specific topics and create a newspaper in a 90-minute class. Skip the lecture!
This detailed resource includes:
Teacher's Guide
Student handouts with directions and topic suggestions
3 article graphic organizers
Background information on topics such as Civil Rights such as Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the March on Selma
EDITABLE Rubric
PDF and Slides included
Suggested topics and informational text included in this guide:
- Booker T. Washington
- Rosa Parks
- Jim Crow Laws
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- W.E.B. Dubois
- Brown vs. Board of Education
- Little Rock Nine
- March on Selma
- Civil Rights Act 1964
- Voting Rights Act 1965
Skills Developed in this lesson:
•Students will select and research a topic related to the Civil Rights Movement.
•Students will analyze nonfiction text related to the Civil Rights Movement.
•Students will convey their analysis of nonfiction information through expository writing.
Two ways to use:
- Introduction: students read the provided information and write articles in a short time. Students work together to form the first page or two of a newspaper on their topics.
- In-depth: students read the provided information on industrial revolution related topics. Student groups work together to divide up topics and ideas and conduct additional research. Students write investigative articles on the topics.
- OPTIONAL: for either option, consider a gallery walk at the end in which students visit each other's newspapers to learn about the different topics and to analyze major events and people related to the era.
Related Civil Rights Movement Resources Include:
☆ Civil Rights Activities for today - great for social justice discussions
☆ Civil Rights Movement Bell-ringers, warm-ups, writing prompts FREE
☆ Civil Rights Movement Collaborative Newspaper Activity or Project
☆ Civil Rights Movement Digital Interactive Notebook Google Drive
☆ Civil Rights Movement Gallery Walk of Images and Primary Sources
☆ Civil Rights Movement Illustrated Timeline Activity or Collaborative Project
☆ Civil Rights Movement Interactive Notebook Pages
☆ Civil Rights Movement Research and Role Play Project RECENTLY UPDATED
What teachers LOVE about this Civil Rights resource:
Great Project for students to learn in a hands-on way about Civil Rights. I took the resource and edited it a bit but I will do this project every year with my students, thank you!
My students enjoyed using this activity as a way to research more about the Civil Rights Movement and key figures who participated in the movement. It was a way for them to research and share what they learned in a creative way. Thank you.
I like the information text, and my students enjoy the newspaper format. Nice, easy to use project that supported my class reading of Civil Rights-themed novels.
Great activity. I used this as a wrap-up activity for the Civil Rights movement but could also be used to begin a unit.
I like the hands on aspect of this lesson and provides the students a format to report the news in an interesting format.
Loved the group work and that everything was ready to use. Thx.
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