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Teaching Mockingbird: Images
These photographs were taken by Walker Evans in the 1930s for the Farm Security Administration of the United States Government. The government established the FSA to help document the reality and effects of the Great Depression on farmers and communities in the rural South.
![A cabin where an African American family lived, in rural Hale County, Alabama during the Great Depression.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/5_Negro_cabin%2C_Hale_County%2C_AL.jpg?h=54dfc285&itok=Oh_qn6Vu)
Whole-School Read Guide: Foster a Literacy Community
This planning guide will help you design and implement a Whole-School Read that centers students’ voices and experiences.
![Blue and purple toned books, view from above](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-08/2022_WholeSchoolRead_FH2182314.jpg?h=a319f810&itok=mUSwGTPf)
Glenn Ligon's Untitled: Four Etchings
Artist Glenn Ligon created Untitled: Four Etchings using quotations from writer Zora Neale Hurston's essay, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" and Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man.
![Artist Glenn Ligon created Untitled: Four Etchings [B] using a quotation from writer Zora Neale Hurston’s essay, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.”](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/D15968_Medium_res.jpg?h=c15025bd&itok=EIHlZetq)
T.O. Jones
Learn about T.O. Jones, a sanitation worker who led the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike in 1968.
![A black and white painting of T.O. Jones on the Memphis Upstanders Mural, a painting on a brick wall in Memphis, TN.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/TOJones_FH249664.jpg?h=aef07937&itok=vxqeSQif)
Our Kind of People
Explore how the choices individuals make about clothing affect how others perceive them with Bayeté Ross Smith’s 2010 photography series.
![Portrait of a man.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-10/Our_Kind_1_FH260750.jpg?h=c848f0b8&itok=RxHoKT_1)
Rabbi James A. Wax
Learn about Rabbi James A Wax, Senior Rabbi at Temple Israel in Memphis from 1954 to 1978.
![A black and white painting of Rabbi James A. Wax on the Memphis Upstanders Mural, a painting on a brick wall in Memphis, TN.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/RabbiJamesWax_FH249675.jpg?h=9dd951d5&itok=ceMDzdF9)
Jose Guerrero
Learn about Jose Guerrero, a grassroots activist instrumental in the founding of Latino Memphis.
![A black and white painting of Jose Guerrero on the Memphis Upstanders Mural, a painting on a brick wall in Memphis, TN.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/JoseGuerrero.jpg?h=da53572e&itok=BpCgz3wH)
Propaganda Posters
Have students analyze these examples of Nazi propaganda using the Crop It teaching strategy.
![This mid-1930s poster says, “The NSDAP (Nazi Party) protects the people. Your fellow comrades need your advice and help, so join the local party organization.”](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1936_NaziRecruitmentPropaganda_FH229451.jpg?h=5e938d19&itok=Wj-dTXcd)
Roman Vishniac Gallery Walk
The images in this gallery are taken by Roman Vishniac during the Holocaust and are used for a Gallery Walk teaching strategy.
![Several Jewish schoolchildren jostle each other. Taken circa 1935-1938.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/16_Vishniac_boys_GALLERY_2_Medium_res.jpg?h=603532df&itok=HHj9toQO)
Territorial Changes of the Ottoman Empire 1817 - 1913
View a series of maps highlighting changes to the Ottoman Empire in green.
![Map of the Ottoman Empire Territory in 1817](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Territorial_changes_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_1817_800x600.jpeg?h=ccb565a9&itok=AN0JbOzo)