American Democracy and the Promise of Justice

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.03.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. What we are Doing (Action Process)
  3. Rationale
  4. Content Background
  5. Unit Objectives
  6. Topic One
  7. Topic Two
  8. Topic Three
  9. Topic Four
  10. Topic Five
  11. Teaching Strategies
  12. Timeline: Voting Rights and Civil Rights
  13. Classroom Activities
  14. Resources
  15. Student Resources
  16. Teacher Resources
  17. Bibliography
  18. Appendix
  19. Notes

The Right to Vote: Empowerment and Civic Engagement in our Democracy

Cinde H. Berkowitz

Published September 2019

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Teacher Resources

"America's Founding Documents." National Archives. Last modified December 18, 2018.

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs.

Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. London: Penguin, 2005.

"Civil Rights Movement -- Voting Rights in America ~ Two Centuries of Struggle." Civil Rights Movement Veterans - CORE, NAACP, SCLC, SNCC. Accessed July 10, 2019.

"Digital Public Library of America." Digital Public Library of America. Accessed July 12, 2019. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/voting-rights-act-of-1965/teaching-guide.

"History Now Search." Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Accessed

July 14, 2019. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now-search?keys=Hamilton.

Mann, R. When Freedom Would Triumph: The Civil Rights Struggle in Congress, 1954--1968? LSU Press, 2007.

"The March on Washington: A Virtual Tour." Gilder Lehrman Institute of American

History. Accessed July 14, 2019. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/content/march-washington-virtual tour.

Moyers & Company The Fight-and the Right-to Vote /. n.d. Film.

Scholastic Publishes Literacy Resources and Children's Books for Kids of All Ages. Accessed July 12, 2019. http://www.scholastic.com/americanjustice/pdfs/Abota_Const_RightToVote.pdf.

"Shelby County v. Holder Case Documents | | Brennan Center for Justice." n.d.

https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/shelby-county-v-holder-law-library.

"The Voting Rights Act: Ten Things You Should Know." Zinn Education Project. Accessed

July 11, 2019. https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/the-voting-rights-act-ten-things-you-should-know/.

"Voting Rights in America, Six Years after Shelby v. Holder | Brennan Center for Justice."

n.d. https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/voting-rights-america-six-years-after-shelby-v-holder.

"Voting Rights Timeline." I Vote Civic Education Fund. Accessed July 9, 2019.

https://www.ivotecef.org/timeline.

"Why We the People? Citizens as Agents of Constitutional Change." Gilder Lehrman

Institute of American History. Accessed July 14, 2019.

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/node/78780.

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