Famous Civil Rights Activists | Black History Month Reading Comprehension

If you’re looking for engaging Black History Month reading comprehension worksheets to use with your students about important figures in history, this pack is perfect. With these reading comprehension worksheets your students will be able to learn all about famous civil rights activists.

 

What’s Included?

• 28 printable Black History Month – Famous Civil Rights Activists comprehension worksheets. (24 pages)
• Digital Google Slides Black History Month – Famous Civil Rights Activists comprehension.

 

How to Use – Printables

• Print out the worksheets.
• Provide students with 1 x reading passage worksheet and 1 x matching questions worksheet.
• Students need to read the reading passage and then answer the questions on the matching worksheet.

 

How to Use – Google Slides

• Assign the comprehension pack to your students on Google Slides.
• Students read the reading passage page, then click under each question on the matching question page to type in their answers.

 

Included are;

• Abraham Lincoln
• Booker T. Washington
• Frederick Douglas
• Henry ‘Box’ Brown
• Huey P. Newton
• Jesse Jackson
• John F. Kennedy
• Malcolm ‘X’
• Marcus Garvey
• Martin Luther King
• Nathaniel Turner
• Nelson Mandela
• Philip Randolph
• Thurgood Marshall
• Amelia Boynton Robinson
• Daisy Bates
• Diane Nash
• Dorothy Height
• Ella Baker
• Fannie Lou Hamer
• Harriet Tubman
• Jo Ann Robinson
• Mary Mcleod Bethuna
• Rosa Parks
• Ruby Bridges
• Septima Poinsette Clark
• Sojourner Truth
• Susan B. Anthony

 

Comes in both spelling variations; color/colour etc.

 

✭ Common Core Standards ✭

RI.1.1

RI.1.2

RI.1.10