This lesson asks students to engage in chronological reasoning about the development of the Civil Rights Movement in the 20th century using three letters from the “NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom” exhibition in Library of Congress’s digital archive. Effective as a summative unit lesson or an assessment, this lesson requires students to apply broad knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement to draw inferences about the order that the letters were written.
![NAACP Letters](/sites/default/files/styles/content_image/public/lessons/2017-10/A.%20Philip%20Randolph.jpg?itok=HSooHOKR)
Portrait of A. Philip Randolph taken by Gordon Parks. From the Library of Congress.