Labor and Land
Land, economics, and labor have always been central to the struggle for civil rights, including the 1963 March on Washington.
Introduction
Land and labor have always been central to the struggle for civil and human rights in the United States. In this section we provide resources to explore the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and a contemporary struggle over land and the environment on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.
Lessons
Readings
Films, Books, and Other Resources
Films, Archives, Podcasts and More
Interactive Map
Invasion of America
Visual Map
Native American Land Loss
Film
Viva La Causa
Lessons and Resources
Topics and Authors
- Reading
- Lesson
- Mississippi
- Desegregation
- Education
- SNCC
- Alabama
- Deborah Menkart
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Voting Rights
- Black Power
- Labor
- Ella Baker
- Teaching Reflection
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- SCLC
- Emilye Crosby
- Poetry
- Julian Bond
- Selma
- Jenice L. View
- MFDP
- Black Panther Party
- Primary Document
- Transportation
- Teaching Idea
- Rosa Parks
- Land
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Malcolm X
- Bob Moses
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Stokely Carmichael
- Julian Hipkins III
- Vietnam War
- John Lewis
- Voting Rights Act
- Timeline
- Sit-Ins
- March on Washington
- Judy Richardson
- Amzie Moore
- Alana D. Murray
- Maggie Nolan Donovan
- Colia Liddell Lafayette Clark
- Nonviolence
- Film
- Medgar Evers
- Emmett Till
- Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
- John Hulett
- Self-Defense
- Quiz
- Bill Bigelow
- Freedom Summer
- NAACP
- Tennessee
- Allison Acosta
- Art
- Claudette Colvin
- Prisons
- SNCC Digital Gateway
- Black Lives Matter
- Amelia Boynton
- Sheyann Webb
- Herbert Lee
- Adam Sanchez
- KKK
- Clyde Kennard
- FBI
- Patty Bode
- Charles Payne
- Linda Christensen
- Stephanie Schmidt
- CORE
- Highlander
- Introduction
- E.W. Steptoe
- Georgia
- Nicolás Guillén
- James Loewen
- Arkansas
- Louis Allen
- Redlining
- Annie Devine
- New York
- SCOTUS
- North Carolina
- Kentucky
- Elementary
- Eyes on the Prize
- Allyson Criner Brown
- A. Philip Randolph
- Chris Seeger
- Coretta Scott King
- James Meredith
- Hasan Jeffries
- Charles E. Cobb Jr.
- Bayard Rustin
- Police