Civil Rights
Miles talks about the civil rights movement of the 50’s and 60’s. Why it was important then and how those lessons affect our movements today.
Lesson Plan
In this lesson students will actively learn about how the Civil Rights Movement impacted today’s political landscape. Students will engage in similar processes that leaders in the Civil Rights Movement utilized to strategize, plan and enact campaigns to end segregation and racist policies. After engaging with each other on discussion and history of the Civil Rights Movement, students will break up into small groups to identify a communal problem, propose a solution and make signs about their issue to be used in distance learning environments like Zoom. Ultimately, this lesson will task students with creative problems solving as well as creative design.
LEARNING GOALS
Name important civil rights leaders
Identify communal problems & solutions
Speak persuasively about issues
SUBJECTS
Civics
History
Political Action/Science
MATERIAL
Stories/brainstroming
Breakout rooms
Blank paper and pens/art supplies
TEACHER BIO:
Miles Tokunow
Miles Tokunow is a multimedia storyteller. He is an artist, organizer, and educator. He is a dancer, musician, writer, zine maker and film editor. He is a proud member of the Ground Series Dance Collective.
He's worked in the non-profit sector for over ten years, teaching radio production, film and narrative storytelling, as well as creative media like 3-D printing, coding & interactive installations. Currently he organizes around issues of immigration, democracy reform and worker's rights.
He has partnered with New Mexico Public Libraries, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History, the New Mexico School for the Arts, Kenyon University, Grinnell College, and has presented at conferences nationally and internationally.
He is married to the poet and artist Naima Yael Tokunow, and they live and homestead in Albuquerque, NM, with their child, three dogs, fruit trees, gardens & chickens. He hopes to add goats and crickets soon.
Resources and Links
Check out your local community organizations working for racial and social justice