Daniel Duerring

This ready-to-use PowerPoint presentation provides students with a deep, historically grounded look at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life, leadership, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance. This resource is perfect for middle school, high school, and introductory U.S. history or civics classes, going beyond a simple biography to help students understand both why Dr. King mattered and how his ideas shaped the Civil Rights Movement. This PowerPoint will assist students in learning about Dr. Ki

This video activity comes complete with: a hyperlink to the streaming video; onscreen questions; a full answer key. A Time for Justice: America's Civil Rights Movement is a short documentary produced by Charles Guggenheim and released in 1994. The film won an Oscar for Documentary Short Subject during the 67th Academy Awards in 1995. The film is narrated by civil rights leader Julian Bond and it features civil rights leader John Lewis. Video segments include archival footage and eyewitness acco

This editable slideshow details the events and figures surrounding Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, including: the leadup to it as well as its immediate aftermath. Specifically, the chain of events that brought him to Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN; a hyperlink to a video clip/overview of his last speech on April 3, 1968 and the prophetic words he spoke; eyewitness accounts of his final moments; the short-term and long-term impact his assassination had on both the civil rights movement an

This activity includes: (1) a one-page summary overview that places Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail in historical context; (2) hyperlinks to both an uploaded audio/video file featuring Dr. King reading his own letter as well as a digitized version of a transcribed copy of the letter that belonged to Reverend Joe C. Higginbotham (one of the Birmingham clergymen who was given a copy of the letter) and later gifted to the University of Alabama by his wife, Mrs. Ann T. H

This resource includes: (1) a hyperlink to a streaming video "Slave Ship"; (2) a set of onscreen questions; (3) a full answer key to the first segment of a 2 part documentary. This video activity focuses on Part 1 of the video which traces the trans-Atlantic slave trade from its origin(s) in Africa and then along the harrowing voyage named the "Middle Passage". This documentary is a combination of eyewitness/participatory accounts, historical re-enactments, and scholarly insight.

This lesson plan focuses on consumer brand naming by Hershey Chocolate Company during the Progressive Era and it includes: (1) a description/overview of brand naming as a marketing technique; (2) examples of brand naming by Hershey Chocolate Company through advertisements, packaging, and labels;; (3) a set of questions and an answer key.

This lesson activity includes: (1) an overview/summary of both the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the filibuster; (2) hyperlinks to the two primary sources featured in this lesson activity: the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and Senator Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the bill; (3) a set of questions (with answer keys) to both featured primary sources in this lesson; (4) a list of other recommended resources (with accessible links) featuring the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and/or Strom Thurmo

This in-depth PowerPoint explores how Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, words, and ideals have been remembered, interpreted, and memorialized in American culture—from the immediate aftermath of his assassination to the creation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall. This presentation blends together civil rights history, public memory, art, music, and monument studies, while inviting to consider both what we remember about Dr. King and how/why he is commemorated. This presen

This activity on The Mayflower Compact includes a brief background/overview essay, maps, a document manuscript, and several related paintings along with a set of questions and an answer key.

This video activity is complete with: (1) a hyperlink to a video: I Ain't No Three Fifths of a Person; (2) a set of onscreen questions to go along with video; (3) a full answer key. The video includes scholarly insights, historical re-enactments, and firsthand participatory accounts focusing on the Three Fifths Clause as well as the experiences of both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson's slaves.