Leann Beard

Dive deeper into Black History Month with this Civil Rights icon! Fannie Lou Hamer grew up a sharecropper in Mississippi and later in life became a radical organizer within the Civil Rights movement for the right to vote and live with dignity. Heralded by the likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Hamer represents an often overlooked side of the Civil Rights Movement and offers key insight into everyday activism and the importance of suffrage. This product is distance learning friendly and comes

Perfect for Black History Month! This lesson provides more historical context for Dr. King's final days, spent bringing attention to a labor strike in Memphis, Tennessee, despite being deep in the midst of a national campaign to march on Washington, DC. This lesson is distance-learning friendly and comes with a 14 slide PowerPoint with discussion questions and a clip from Dr. King's final speech, as well as scaffolded notes for students to track student engagement and an answer key. You can easi

Distance learning friendly, this game of trivia works best in breakout rooms. Have students work together to answer all of the questions. You can even have students assign a point value (1-3) to each answer to up the ante. Our students really enjoyed this activity and the chance to earn a homework pass!