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Explore videos that focus on events during Kennedy's third year in office.
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Subject: The Arts, Civics and US Government, Economics, US History, World History
Grade: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
This 20-page booklet tells the story of voting rights during the Kennedy administration and beyond through photographs and documents. Includes guiding questions and a bibliography.
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Subject: Civics and US Government, English Language Arts, US History
Grade: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Time: 0-1 hour
In this activity, students will read a transcript and listen to an excerpted audio recording of a secretly taped phone conversation excerpt between President Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett. The students’ goal is to identify information the audio recording can provide beyond what they have learned from reading the transcript of the phone conversation.
Lesson Plans & Activities
Subject: Civics and US Government, US History
Grade: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Time: 0-1 hour
Students read and analyze segregation ordinances, and learn how Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights activists challenged these unjust laws through peaceful protest and civil disobedience during the 1963 civil rights campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. The lesson highlights the vital role that young people played in the campaign.
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Subject: Civics and US Government, English Language Arts, US History
Grade: 7, 8
Time: 3-4 hours
Students become biographers for the day as they explore John F. Kennedy's early years, his presidency, and the contributions he made to our nation and the world. They analyze historic photographs and documents, view films and television footage, and examine objects in the museum as they gather and record information in our "Biographer's Workbook."
Guided Programs
Subject: Civics and US Government, English Language Arts, US History
Grade: 3, 4, 5
Time: 2-3 hours
Students analyze the arguments made in April and May 1963 by Alabama Governor George Wallace to prevent the integration of the University of Alabama, and the arguments made by the Kennedy administration to enforce a court order to desegregate the University.
Lesson Plans & Activities
Subject: Civics and US Government, US History
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Time: 1-2 hours