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The movements in North America for civil and human rights have been battles for identity. In each battle, people believed in their cause and stood up to demand the rights they felt they deserved because they knew that their legal right to some extent defined who they were. For example, in the 1920's the "Famous Five" from Alberta fought to have women declared as "persons"; their persistence redefined what Canadian women were able to do under the law.

Students should be presented with articles, legal artifacts, stories, photographs, timelines, newspaper clippings, etc. to act as springboards for students to discuss, debate, write, and read thoughtfully and critically about issues that continue to affect our world.l

You might choose to begin with either denial of civil rights to Chinese-Canadians or school segregation in the southern United States. In addition, materials on similar themes found in libraries, on the Internet, or currently in the media could easily be used as a focus for many of the activities.

Major Integrated Resource (MIR)

• Issues Collection available from McGraw-Hill
• Identities 9 available from Oxford University Press (Canada)

• The Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s - The object of this web quest is for students to place themselves in the midst ofthe Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s and report on it as a T.V. news team.

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