Lesson Module Three: Reframing the Narrative

The third lesson module in this book explores the ways in which the narrative of the Civil Rights Movement is changing. In the first article, Dr. Evan Howard Ashford, explores the ways in which African Americans protected their humanity and demanded rights and equality from the colonial era to the late nineteenth century. In the second article, Dr. Susan Goodier explores the movement in the twentieth century, focusing on themes including political rights, the Great Migration, and the post-World War II era. In the lesson module, Aditi Doshi explores the President’s Committee on Civil Rights (1946-1947) to help students explore the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1940s.