Race, Politics, Policing, & Protest: Origins of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement: Faculty Resources
This guide is meant to help students, faculty, and staff understand the conversation behind the #blacklivesmatter movement and hashtag.
Faculty Resources
On this page you will find resources curated to help you teach and discuss the #BlackLivesMatter Movement in the classroom.
The Timeline & Primary Sources of Slavery & the Civil Rights Struggle in America
- Black Lives Matter: Continuing the Civil Rights MovementThis timeline, created by The Choices Program, follows the Civil Rights movements from the 1950's through today.
- Prologue: 1619 - 1897A timeline of African Americans in the Colonies, through the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
- Prologue: Primary SourcesIncluding photographs, petitions, maps, and drawings from the Library of Congress.
- The Segregation Era (1900–1939)A timeline of the Struggle, starting with Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, through the run up to the second World War.
- The Segregation Era: Primary SourcesIncluding photographs, petitions, maps, and drawings from the Library of Congress.
- World War II and Post War (1940–1949)A timeline of the Struggle during and just after World War II.
- World War II and Post War: Primary SourcesIncluding photographs, petitions, maps, and drawings from the Library of Congress.
- Civil Rights Era (1950–1963)A timeline of the Struggle from Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the murder of Emmett Till, the Vietnam War, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
- Civil Rights Era: Primary SourcesIncluding photographs, petitions, maps, and drawings from the Library of Congress.
- Civil Rights Act of 1964Includes documents on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including amendments and revisions.
#syllabus
- #FORMATION: Approaching The Black Lives Matter MovementNew York University. Includes videos, suggested reading list, and other sources.
- Ferguson Syllabus from Sociologists for JusticeThe following is a collection of research articles used to inform the arguments in the public statement on the events in Ferguson.
Other Online Resources
- The Death of Michael Brown: Teaching About FergusonLesson plans, resources, and more.
- Do's and Don'ts for Teaching About FergusonProcess it yourself first, ask students what they want to know and by all means, don’t make the lesson colorblind. Find out these and more tips for classroom discussions about Michael Brown’s death.
- The Racism Root Kit: Understanding the Insidiousness of White PrivilegeWhat are the mechanisms that Whites utilize that prevent them from being open to considering underlying motivations of their behaviors? Failure to acknowledge the invisible Whiteness of being, the myth of meritocracy, and the associated privileges that come from White superiority play a significant role in preventing the establishment of empathic connections with people of color.
- Teaching #BlackLivesMatterThe #BlackLivesMatter movement challenges the ongoing murders of African Americans by the police and the long history of institutionalized racism. This resource collection was originally published in August of 2014, after the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
- Teaching Diversity and JusticeA list of recommended reading from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
- WHAT IS HAPPENING IN FERGUSON, MO?From the Anti-Defamation League. Includes learning objectives, material, and more.
The Voting Rights Act Today
#syllabus
Dr. Marcia Chatelain, professor of history at Georgetown University, tweeted with the hashtag #FergusonSyllabus, and thus began a movement where people offered suggestions of readings and films intended for teachers to use in the classroom. Read more about the #syllabus movement.
After #FergusonSyllabus came #BaltimoreSyllabus, and after that came #CharlestonSyllabus. Find links to the Twitter and other resources to the left.
Books in our Collection
Teaching and social justice : integrating multicultural and feminist theories in the classroom by Call Number: LC192.2 .T43 2005Publication Date: 2004
Teaching for social justice : a democracy and education reader by Call Number: LC 191.4 T42 1998Publication Date: 1998
