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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
UDF Public Meeting
The Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee (JODAC) was formed as an affiliate of the UDF in 1983, and provided an opportunity for whites to join the struggle against apartheid.
![Poster with information about a public meeting at Johannesburg City Hall.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Call_to_Whites.jpg?h=258346de&itok=fxQqyjY4)
UDF Unites, Apartheid Divides
Established in 1983, the United Democratic Fronts' goal was the establishment of a non-racial, united South Africa in which segregation is abolished and society is freed from institutional and systemic racism.
![Poster advertising a rally in Capetown contains an illustration of people marching carrying a "UDF" flag.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/UDF_Unites_-_Apartheid_Divides.jpg?h=2b832867&itok=CtZS0cnT)
View of Johannesburg
A view of Johannesburg and its northern suburbs as seen from the top floor of the Carlton Centre, depicting the city’s modern infrastructure.
![Birds eye view of Johannesburg with many tall modern buildings.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/View_Of_Johannesburg_Medium_res.jpg?h=7fb2964e&itok=KfDXW4P8)
Activists C. P. Ellis and Ann Atwater
C. P. Ellis, a former Ku Klux Klan member, and Ann Atwater, a community activist, formed an unlikely partnership after being assigned as co-leaders of a group of citizens navigating court-ordered school desegregation in Durham, North Carolina, in the 1970s.
![C.P. Ellis, a white man, and Ann Atwater, a Black woman, sit together holding hands.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/ActivistsCPEllisandAnnAtwater_FH229560.jpg?h=cfed2447&itok=wa0fFJ55)
Student Activities: The Targeting of Uyghur Muslims in China (UK)
Use these slides to help students develop their understanding of the situation in Xinjiang and the targeting of Uyghur Muslims.
![Two ethnic Uighur women pass Chinese paramilitary policemen](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/GettyImages-89015108.jpg?h=271dca7e&itok=dfBOIEgW)
Map of South Africa Showing British Possessions, July 1885
This map illustrates territorial boundaries and colonial possessions in southern Africa in the late nineteenth-century.
![South Africa divided and colored based on free territories (Transvaal, Orange Free State, Stella Land) and British possessions (Cape Colony, Griqua Land West, Griqua Land East, Natal, Basuto Land, Bechuanaland).](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1885_MapSouthAfricaBritishPossessions_FH281152.jpg?h=2d839f00&itok=vdlgsUCm)
The Social Reality of Race
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Is race a social construct? An American living in the Netherlands is faced with this question when she encounters the Dutch's definition of who is "black."
![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)
Student Activities: The Supreme Court, Trust, and Political Partisanship
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These student-facing slides help students learn about the recent decline in public trust in the Supreme Court and the history of partisan politics in the Court.
![Women's Rights Protest Outside Of The US Supreme Court In The Wake Of The Roe Vs. Wade Majority Opinion Being Leaked.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-10/sarah-penney-FmaOo3ISIME-unsplash.jpg?h=71976bb4&itok=y2rRHbIN)
Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, 1508–1512
Michelangelo’s fresco from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted c. 1508–1512, is one in a series portraying biblical stories and characters.
![Painting of Adam and God dated circa 1508-1512 by Michelangelo.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/TheCreationofAdam_FH17244.jpg?h=b82ee7a4&itok=d0WMFmyI)
Rohingya Refugees Arriving by Boat, 2017
Refugees arrive on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River on October 1, 2017, after fleeing their village in Myanmar.
![A woman and a baby are helped off a boat.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/2017_RohingyaRefugeesArrivingbyBoat_FH261964.jpg?h=eb24755d&itok=pei1Gszb)
Refugiados Rohinyá llegan en Embarcaciones, 2017
Refugiados llegan al territorio de Bangladés cruzando el río Naf el 1 de octubre de 2017, después de huir de su aldea en Birmania.
![A woman and a baby are helped off a boat.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/2017_RohingyaRefugeesArrivingbyBoat_FH261964.jpg?h=eb24755d&itok=pei1Gszb)