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The lessons in the "Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice" unit module introduce young historians to four African-American women who made significant contributions to the modern civil rights movement. Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise," Mary Church Terrell's 1898 speech, an interview with Mary McLeod Bethune—a formerly enslaved person and then advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt—and Marian Wright Edelman's 2014 Commencement Speech at Lewis and Clark College serve as models for young scholars to use their voices to inspire change.
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figurative language, african american history, alliteration, assonance, black history month, civil rights, cliches, close reading, context clues, critical reading, critical thinking, determination, discrimination, education, famous african americans, gender, gender bias, gender equality, hyperbole, identity, idioms, imagery, informational texts, jim crow laws, justice, literary themes, main ideas, maya angelou, metaphors, onomatopoeia, personification, poetic devices, poetry analysis, problem solving strategies, race relations, racism, resilience, similes, social activism, social justice, women's history, equity, poets, problem solving techniques, women's history month, addition property of equality, giving speeches, poetry
