Are you looking for a resource that traces the history of the civil rights movement from the arrival of the first Africans to the present? Each slide of these BOOM Cards includes a non-fiction text tracing important events like the Emancipation Proclamation, the Tuskegee Airmen and the Children's Crusade. There are text dependent questions throughout to measure students' understanding of vocabulary and concepts. This resource will give your students a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the Civil Rights Movement.

These Boom Cards trace the history of the Civil Rights Movement from the inception of slavery in 1619 through key moments in the 1960's. A non-fiction text spans most of the cards, with 4 multiple choice questions interwoven in the text. There are also two drag and drop comprehension activities and one short answer (which must be hand scored). The questions are based on released items from PARCC and SBAC and cover vocabulary, author's purpose, and inference. Real photos are used to help students deepen their understanding of these historic events. The text provides an overview of history to spark interest in further research. These cards are interactive with sounds and images, and students will love dragging and dropping and choosing the correct answers.

Topics Covered in the text are:

• The arrival of the first Africans in Virginia in 1619.
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• Jim Crow laws
• the Tuskegee Airmen
• Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education and school segregation
• Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott
• sit-ins at Woolworths
• the Children's Crusade
• the March on Washington

BOOM Cards are so versatile! You can assign them through your Google Classroom easily (click here to learn more about that!). They also work in See Saw! Boom cards are awesome for:

1. Centers

2. Differentiation

3. Small groups

4. Whole class

5. Distance Learning

New to Boom Cards? Learn more here. Once you start, your kids won't let you stop! Boom Cards are self-grading, interactive digital task cards. You will need to open a free, Boom Card account to play them (to protect your students).

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Click here to get a free Boom card set - Women's Suffrage - Fact and Opinion BOOM Cards

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For more resources to teach Black History, check out:

Anansi and His Son - an African folktale about Unity

Free at Last! - A Differentiated Biography about Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kwanzaa - Celebrating the Seven Principles - a Differentiated Text

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