Civil Rights for Kids and Educators

Explore educational material about civil rights on our For Teachers page. The page is a searchable database with lesson plans, classroom materials, field experiences, distance learning, and other educational materials related to Civil Rights in our national parks. The educational material is broken in to areas such as material type, location, topic, and grade range.

Visit our Pivotal Moments in Civil Rights History page on this site for essays grouped by time period covering almost 400 years of civil rights history in the United States. Each time period also has links to web pages with people and places stories related to the relevant period in history.

Learn about the Teaching with Historic Places lesson plans and how historic places enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects.

Use the National Park Service's Multimedia Search to look for podcasts, audio, video, and photos pertaining to civil rights history

Look below to find our online articles that tell the stories of events, people, and locations involved with civil rights. The stories cover many aspects of civil rights in the United States and are a good source of information for educators, students, and anyone else interested in civil rights and history.