Teaching Resources

Lesson Plans for Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education

The August 28, 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Justice is an ideal representative example of the long civil rights movement.

The March, a 30-minute documentary, is the best visual and oral representation of The March. Here are lesson plans for teaching the march as a historical event and James Blue’s documentary The March as a work of art that captures The March on Washington as a historical event.

A photograph of the National Mall in Washington, DC, filled with protestors.

Teaching The March as a Historical Event

Teaching The March as a Film

University of Oregon Sponsored by Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art UO Libraries

The digital exhibition The March is the result of a collaboration between the University of Oregon Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike 4.0 International License to David Frank and the University of Oregon, 2018.