Civil Rights: Identifying Community Issues

Help your students make a connection between the historic achievements of the civil rights movement and today’s struggles to improve communities across the nation and around the world. In this activity, students will investigate a contemporary civil rights issue to better understand the continuing legacy of the civil rights movement and the current impact of civil rights issues the movement did not address. By focusing on an issue in their own community, students’ investigation is grounded in reality and lays the foundation for further exploration and action.