Civil Rights Movement Lessons

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📚 Part 1: Key Vocabulary & People

1. What does "segregation" mean?

Keeping people separated because of their race

Working together as a team

Sharing toys with friends

2. Who was Rosa Parks?

A teacher who started a school

A woman who refused to give up her bus seat

A doctor who helped sick people

3. What is "equality"?

Treating all people fairly and the same

Being good at math

Having the same birthday

4. Check all the ways people protested for civil rights:

Peaceful marches

Sitting at lunch counters

Boycotting buses

Writing angry letters

5. Fill in the blanks about important Civil Rights events:

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a _________" speech in Washington, D.C.

Ruby Bridges was the first _________ child to attend an all-white school in the South.

6. The Qur'an teaches us to "be just, even if it is against yourself or your family." How does this connect to the Civil Rights Movement?

7. Write one way you can practice justice and fairness in your school or community:

8. Why was the Civil Rights Movement important for America?

9. Draw or write about a Civil Rights leader who inspires you and explain why:

10. Create your own "Justice Pledge" - write one promise about how you will treat others fairly:

My Justice Pledge:

I promise to ________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

because ________________________________________________

11. How can learning about the Civil Rights Movement help us today?