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This is a page for ideas about civil rights assemblies and activities at The IDEAL School of Manhattan. We can also coordinate other social studies activities, like the inauguration. Click on the inauguration page and add your ideas.

Inauguration 2009

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One idea that was floated at a recent meeting was having a biography focus for each grade.

Here is a list of a few figures in the civil rights movement. Please feel free to claim one of them by editing this page. Or add your own figure or idea by editing.

MLK

Rosa Parks

Ruby Bridges (a good fit for 1st grade, since she was a first grader when she integrated a school in LA)

Malcolm X

Fannie Lou Hamer

Stokely Carmichael

John Lewis

Jo Ann Robinson

Virginia Durr

Ralph Abernathy

E.D. Nixon

Thurgood Marshall