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"Test the waters" of human rights awareness with your class before introducing them to the framework by using the following questionnaire.

On August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington, Dorothy Height sat on the speakers’ platform and listened to Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech. She had helped organize the rally that brought about 250,000 people to the National Mall. In fact, she’d been in the forefront of the civil right struggle for decades as the president of the National Council of Negro Women.

Many schools are offering civil rights trips over spring break. Find out how you can engage students in your communities and across the country.

On this important anniversary, integrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into your classroom reading instruction.

Use first-graders’ commitment to fairness to help them connect with the modern civil rights movement.

As a middle school student, I was perplexed by a quote by George Santayana that my history teacher posted on the wall. It read, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” As a budding history teacher, it continued to puzzle me.