• Introduce the issue – What is happening? Why is this a Civil Rights Struggle?
• Explain the history – What happened before this issue? What change is being fought for?
• Answer the following questions using claim paragraphs:How can the ordinary citizen influence democracy?
  What are civil rights and how are they gained?
  How do civil rights in our democracy expand/change over time?
  What is equality? How has the concept of equality been reflected in our history?
  

As you use the research links below make sure that you record the following information in your Researcher’s Notebook:

• Article Title
• Article Author
• Article Source
• Who, What, When, Where, and any other important facts from the article

Exit Slip

When you get done please complete this short exit slip!

Gay Rights

• American Civil Liberties Union LGBT library – Youth and Schools 
• American Civil Liberties Union LGBT – transgender resource page
• History of the Gay Rights movement 

Child Labor

• Proposed 1924 Constitutional Amendment 
• History of Child Labor in the USA 

Civil Rights and Segregation

• Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement 
• PBS Timeline with links

Women’s Rights

• American Civil Liberties Union Library
• History of the Equal Rights Amendment
• Declaration of sentiments and the Seneca Falls convention 

Police Brutality

• Seattle Police Department 
• Federal Government cracks down on Police Brutality

Seattle’s WTO Protests

• UW image collection
• HistoryLink Article 

Censorship

• A Timeline of Censored Music
• Censorship in America homepage

Student Privacy Rights

• When can educators search students cell phones? 
• TLO v. New Jersey 
• Student sues over confiscated cell phone
• Klump v. Nazareth Area School District

Student Free Speech and Expression

• American Civil Liberties Union library – Student Free Speech 
• Tinker v. Des Moines
• Bethel v. Fraser
• Student Expression Links and Research 
• Bracelets – Obscene or ok?

Big Sam

Women march for the right to vote. New York City, 1912

Women march for the right to vote. New York, New York 1912

Zach and Mary Beth Tinker show off the arm bands that were part of their landmark student speech rights case of 1969.

Protesters during the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle.

Student walk out of LA High Schools to protest educational inequality during the Chicano Blowout of 1968

Spontaneous riots break out after police raid a night club called the Stonewall Inn. This is recognized as the start of the Gay Rights movement.