Empowering Global Citizens

Unit 7.5

Topic Civil Rights Movement and Change Makers

Theme ICC: interpersonal (empathy); ICC: intrapersonal (recog—
nizing prejudice and minimizing the effects of prejudice);
ethics: ethical frameworks, common values, commitment to
equality, the value of human potential, and commitment to
supporting human rights; work and mind habits: innova—
tion and creativity; and arts: visual and literature

Region United States, India, Myanmar, South Africa, and the world
(based on HR violations)

Length: Four weeks

Goals and Objectives

1. Learn about the civil rights movement and the rights it addressed as
well as the ways in which different change makers across the globe
have advocated for human rights and the SDGS using different
approaches.

2. Inspire students to effect change in an issue that is important to them
based on the different approaches used by various change makers.

3. Act by demonstrating an understanding of the different ways
through which change may be created and by reflecting on the di—
rection that they want their own projects to take.

Skills and Knowledge

1. Students will identify important phases in the US civil rights move—
ment as well as the importance of the movement’s work in advocat—
ing for the right to equality.

2. Students will identify the change makers in each of these phases

and the different approaches they took to ensure that the civil rights
movement would become a mass movement.