Jackie Robinson and the Civil Rights Movement
Documentary Filmmaker Ken Burns discussed Jackie Robinson, his breaking of the color barrier in Major League Baseball, and its impact on the Civil Rights Movement.
Description
Documentary Filmmaker Ken Burns discussed Jackie Robinson, his breaking of the color barrier in Major League Baseball, and its impact on the Civil Rights Movement.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- Describe the status of the Civil Rights Movement when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
- Explain the significance of Jackie Robinson integrating baseball.
- Describe the experience of Jackie and Rachel Robinson traveling to his first spring training.
Additional Resources
- Lesson Plan: Key Events of the Civil Rights Movement
In this lesson, students will explore the key events of the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, including the methods used and groups who participated in them, and then analyze the impact and legacy of those events.
- Bell Ringer: Jackie Robinson
Bob Kendrick, president and CEO of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum discussed the impact that Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball in 1947 on the Civil Rights Movement.
- Lesson Plan: Baseball in America, Origins and Early Days
Participants
Vocabulary
- Brown V. Board Of Education
- Civil Rights Movement
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Jim Crow Laws
- Rosa Parks
- Segregation
- Sit-ins
- W. E. B. Dubois