University of Virginia
The University of Virginia Library: Reconstruction, by Fredrick Douglass
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Suffering and Recovery
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 Learning Media: Transformed Workplaces
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 Learning Media: Small Business
This video from Wide Angle profiles Rwanda's new economy through the small business of Epiphanie Mukashyaka, a woman widowed by recent genocide.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Pa Nning for Facts
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.
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Boxes [Pdf]
This task challenges students to demonstrate an understand of the concept of equality using scales and balance beams.
City University of New York
City University of New York: Great Issues Forum
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...
Other
Muslim Women's League: Welcome to the Muslim Women's League
Addresses a multitude of topics pertaining to women and "the values of Islam", including dress, equality, and violence.
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University System of Georgia: Civil Rights Digital Library
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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Early Documents: Now Statement of Purpose
This primary source document is the statement of purpose for the National Organization for Women, established in 1966.
Cornell University
Cornell University: Law School: Equal Protection Overview
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.
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Robert Kennedy on Civil Rights, 1963 [Abridged]
[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...
Stanford University
Sheg: Reading Like a Historian: Booker T. Washington vs w.e.b. Du Bois
[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...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Democracy in America: Civil Rights: Demanding Equality
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.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Women's Rights
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?...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: News
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...
Thomson Reuters
Find Law: Article Iv: Doctrine of the Equality of States
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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University of Michigan: Susan B. Anthony House: Susan B. Anthony
This resource divides her life into the following parts: abolitionist, educational reformer, labor activist, temperance worker, suffragist, and women's rights campaigner.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: New Confidence
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 Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
This collection uses primary sources to compare and explore the relationships between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Beloved by Toni Morrison
This collection uses primary sources to explore Toni Morrison's Beloved.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Poetry of Maya Angelou
This collection uses primary sources to explore the poetry of Maya Angelou.
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Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America
This collection uses primary sources to explore blackface minstrelsy in modern America.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Baker v. Carr
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...