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Students will research the historical cause of desegregating the Armed Forces.

Individual research to find contrasting evidence for change based on the 1929 DePriest Tea Incident.

The purpose of this lesson is to take a comparative examination of the Civil Rights Movement. The actions of three Presidents at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement will be examined to determine the effectiveness of each.

The student will analyze the role of the President of the United States in the Civil Rights movement and desegregation.

In this lesson, students will be asked to analyze two groups of the letters written to President Truman concerning the desegregation of the United States military.  One group of letters will be supportive of the Desegregation of the US military and the second group of letters will voice opposition to the desegregation of the military.  

Students will predict why Truman decided to desegregate the military. Students will then work in groups to analyze relevant primary documents to seek clarification for Truman's decision. Finally, each student will use evidence from the documents to write an essay arguing why Truman decided to desegregate the military.

In this lesson, the students will apply their knowledge of the tactics and strategies used during the Civil Rights Movement to the movements for women's rights and Native American rights. The students will use both primary and secondary sources.

Through the use of primary sources, students will learn about the social integration of the White House in 1929 during what became known as the DePriest Tea Incident.

This series of activities will incorporate individual work in interpreting primary sources, cooperative group learning in the form of class debates, and cross-curricular learning with language arts as students read and discuss famous civil-rights era lite.

Students will conduct research to gain an understanding for where women started in American society, and as a result a better understanding of how they got to the position they are in today.