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University of Virginia

The University of Virginia Library: Reconstruction, by Fredrick Douglass

For Students 9th - 10th
A document on Reconstruction written by Fredrick Douglass. He argues particularly for voting rights for blacks as the most necessary step to avoid the kinds of state's rights conflicts that brought about the Civil War.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Suffering and Recovery

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the role local churches played in bringing Hutus and Tutsis together in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in this Wide Angle video segment.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Transformed Workplaces

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, learn about the transformation of the Indian workplace due to a new influx of young, mostly female workers into India's outsourcing industries.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Small Business

For Students 9th - 10th
This video from Wide Angle profiles Rwanda's new economy through the small business of Epiphanie Mukashyaka, a woman widowed by recent genocide.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Pa Nning for Facts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan to introduce students to PAN technique (Pay Attention Now) when looking at social justice or equality issues. Lesson hopes to discourage snap judgements. Includes worksheet and PowerPoint.
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Lesson Plan
University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Boxes [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This task challenges students to demonstrate an understand of the concept of equality using scales and balance beams.
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Website
City University of New York

City University of New York: Great Issues Forum

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of thought-provoking conversations between some of the world's greatest scholars and leading experts, on critical issues facing the world today. Gives descriptions of the topics and biographical profiles of the speakers. The...
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Other

Muslim Women's League: Welcome to the Muslim Women's League

For Students 9th - 10th
Addresses a multitude of topics pertaining to women and "the values of Islam", including dress, equality, and violence.
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Website
Other

University System of Georgia: Civil Rights Digital Library

For Students 9th - 10th
Compilation of primary resources from broadcasters, museums, libraries, and other content repositories, constituting a scholarly collection of primary sources that document aspects of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
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Other

Early Documents: Now Statement of Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source document is the statement of purpose for the National Organization for Women, established in 1966.
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Law School: Equal Protection Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Includes a link to the full text of the amendment. Discusses equal protection.
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Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Robert Kennedy on Civil Rights, 1963 [Abridged]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read letter from Attorney General Robert Kennedy to President John F. Kennedy concerning civil rights and answer questions about comprehension, author's viewpoint, main idea, vocabulary, and...
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Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Sheg: Reading Like a Historian: Booker T. Washington vs w.e.b. Du Bois

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to read a speech of Booker T. Washington's and a selection...
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Lesson Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Democracy in America: Civil Rights: Demanding Equality

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit embraces those individuals who have brought change to the United States in both social and political equality through a Video on Demand, activities, and other enlightening resources.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Classroom: Women's Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive information for high-school classes examining the history of women's suffrage and the struggle for equal rights as well as related issues that address such questions as: Are laws protecting women's rights still needed?...
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: News

For Students 9th - 10th
NPR has some great coverage of recent events. Use the search tool on the site and search for affirmative action. Reports go back as far as 1996. All of the reports are available as free AUDIO clips. If you cannot use audio, the text...
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Activity
Thomson Reuters

Find Law: Article Iv: Doctrine of the Equality of States

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource discusses Clause 1, Section 3, in Article IV. It outlines the parameters put in place to ensure that as new states entered the union, power was equitably distributed among all.
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Handout
Other

University of Michigan: Susan B. Anthony House: Susan B. Anthony

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource divides her life into the following parts: abolitionist, educational reformer, labor activist, temperance worker, suffragist, and women's rights campaigner.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: New Confidence

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video looks at the reservations that a traditional Indian family had about their daughter taking a job in India's outsourcing industry.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to compare and explore the relationships between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Beloved by Toni Morrison

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Toni Morrison's Beloved.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Poetry of Maya Angelou

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the poetry of Maya Angelou.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore blackface minstrelsy in modern America.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Baker v. Carr

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions over Baker v. Carr, a Supreme Court case that addresses equality in voting districts. These questions are intended for students taking high school or college level American...