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New Lesson Alert!

TeachRock is thrilled to publish our next lesson from an ongoing new collection focusing on the music of the Civil Rights Era. 

“Student Activism and Music During the Civil Rights Movement” examines the powerful role student activists played in fighting for equality in public schools and in other public spaces, including the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision and the Sit-in movement. The lesson also explores how music acted as a “secret code” for student activists, informing them when and where to protest. 

Ella Baker, known reverently as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” is featured in the lesson. In addition to her service and leadership with groups such as the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Baker played a key role in the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which was “the only national Civil Rights organization led by young people.”

Check out the new lesson here, as well as our recently updated lesson, “Music of the Civil Rights Movement.”