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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Eladio Bobadilla, "It's Giving Back to the Community"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on race issues and sports players. It discusses the when then San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem in to protest police brutality, racism, and "a country that...
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Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Eugenics Movement in the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set explores the eugenics movement to help readers analyze how racism, sexism, classism, and ableism influenced eugenics laws and programs in the United States. Teaching guide included.
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Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: African American Soldiers in World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set emphasizes the experiences of African American doughboys during the war while also highlighting how they were perceived by white Americans. Use the sources to determine how racism and patriotism shaped the...
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Website
BBC

Bbc World Service: I Have a Right To

For Students 9th - 10th
How well do you know your own rights? This site aims to help people make good choices and understand issues that directly affect them such as freedom, equality, safety, domestic violence, and the law. Choose a human rights case study for...
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Primary
Curated OER

History Matters: Separate but Equal: The Plessy v. Ferguson Case

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the judgment of Supreme Court justice, Henry Billings Brown, who wrote for the majority in the Plessy v Ferguson decision that codified the idea of "separate but equal" in the American justice system until it was overturned by Brown...
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Article
Curated OER

History Matters: The Eruption of Tulsa

For Students 9th - 10th
This article in the June 29, 1921, issue of Nation magazine by Walter White, an NAACP official, reports on the massive damage to black-owned homes and businesses as a result of the Tulsa race riot on May 31, 1921.
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Primary
Curated OER

History Matters: Shut the Door: A Senator Speaks for Immigration Restriction

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the speech by a senator from South Carolina who used racist theories to support his argument for the Immigration Act of 1924. He was not alone in the Senate inhis support for restrictive immigration policies.
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Handout
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Martin Luther King, Jr.

For Students 3rd - 8th
This biography of Martin Luther King Jr. includes a timeline and addresses the life of the civil rights leader from childhood to the legacy he left behind.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Civil Rights Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson on the Civil Rights movement is organized into three sections: "Identifying the Need for Change," "Ordinary People in the Civil Rights Movement," and "Historic Places in the Civil Rights Movement."
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Anti Immigrant Sentiment

For Students 9th - 10th
Botswanans express some of their attitudes toward the influx of Zimbabwean migrants in this Wide Angle video segment.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Special Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Multimedia collection of video, primary text documents and audio on Civil Rights, especially Brown vs. Board of Education.
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Website
University of Virginia

Virginia Center for Digital History: Television News of the Civil Rights Era

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich collection of streaming video samples of television news footage from 1950 to 1970, along with an assortment of primary source documents, first-person accounts, a glossary of terms, and essays and analysis for learning about the...
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Whiteboard
University of Washington

Seattle Civil Rights Project: Ku Klux Klan in Washington State, 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
Find extensive essays, photographs, articles from newspapers, and documents that trace the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Washington State in the 1920s. Be sure to look through this entile site to see the anti-African American,...
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Activity
University of Missouri

Famous Trials: The Sweet Trials

For Students 9th - 10th
The KKK membership was on the rise in Detroit in the 20s. An angry mob gathers at the home of an African-American doctor and shots ring out from the upstairs. Investigate the trial through transcripts and eye witness accounts.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: To Kill a Mockingbird Teacher's Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a complete study guide for the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee including chapter-by-chapter guided reading questions (aligned to specific Common Core Standards), discussion questions, various writing prompts, and...
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Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Eslarp: Race Riot at East St. Louis, 1917

For Students 9th - 10th
This chapter from a book about East St. Louis relates the horror of the East St. Louis Massacre where maurading whites fired on African Americans and torched their homes. Read about the aftermath of the massacre and what happened to...
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Website
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Eugenics Archive: Eugenics Popularization

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains how the idea of eugenics, based on poor science, became popular in the 1920s as a reaction against immigration and African Americans.
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Website
Other

Sweatt v. Painter Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has just about everything one might want to know in an investigation of the important Supreme Court decision in Sweatt vs. Painter.
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Other

Cartoons of Thomas Nast: Reconstruction, Chinese Immigration, Native Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of political cartoons from the 19th century by Thomas Nast. They provide insight into prevailing attitudes on Reconstruction, Chinese immigrants, Native Americans, slavery, and during the Gilded Era.
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Handout
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality

For Students 9th - 10th
The "Race, Class, and the Politics of Place" chapter from a book with the above title. The chapter discribes the typical pattern of economic development that institutionally aludes blacks in the Southern Region of the US.
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Article
PBS

Pbs News Hour: Alleged Teen Bullies Charged After Classmate's Suicide

For Students 9th - 10th
A 15 year old student hangs herself as a result of bullying. Follow this story that has prompted the community and government officials to lobby for stricter anti-bullying laws. Educational resource materials are included. (April 6, 2010)
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Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Stanford University: Lesson Plan on the Montgomery Bus Boycott

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A comprehensive five part lesson plan that teaches student how to use what happend in the famous bus boycott for both content knowledge and also how to apply to other social movements. The role of Rosa Parks is examined in detail.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Othello

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources focuses on Othello, Shakespeare's classic story of jealousy, love, and betrayal. It shows how race is represented in Shakespeare and in performance throughout history.
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Website
Other

Do something.org

For Students 9th - 10th
Do Something is a nationwide network of young people who know they can make a difference in their communities and take action to change the world around them. As part of Do Something, young people are asked what they want to do to make...

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