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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.
Stranger at the Gate Viewing Guide
Bring the short documentary film Stranger at the Gate into your classroom with the streaming video and companion guide of discussion questions and activities.
![Stranger at the Gate press image Smartypants.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-04/Stranger-085.jpg?h=f54bfa0f&itok=6HJSEUAP)
"The Anti-Chinese Wall" Cartoon
This 1882 cartoon shows stereotypical imagery of laborers, among whom are Irishmen, an African American, a Civil War veteran, Italian, Frenchman, and a Jew, building a wall against the Chinese.
![This 1882 cartoon shows stereotypical imagery of laborers, among whom are Irishmen, an African American, a Civil War veteran, Italian, Frenchman, and a Jew, building a wall against the Chinese.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1882_TheAntiChineseWall_FH2168777.png?h=49e1352e&itok=87tPdNc2)
Aftermath of the Ramaphosa Riots
A child pushes a trolley cart through burnt debris after violent xenophobic clashes at the Ramaphosa informal settlement on the outskirt of Johannesburg on May 21, 2008.
![A child pushes a trolley cart through burnt debris.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/2008_AftermathoftheRamaphosaRiots_FH281928.jpg?h=a5f2f23a&itok=L3gio3La)
Apartheid Era Sign
The Reservation of Separate Amenities Act (passed in 1953) led to signs such as the one shown below.
![The Reservation of Separate Amenities Act (passed in 1953) led to signs such as the one shown above. The Act prohibited people of different races from using the same public amenities.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Apartheid_Era_Sign.jpg?h=77e8015d&itok=b86oNSyE)
Tyler Atkins' Twitter Post
On August 10, 2014, teenager Tyler Atkins posted these images on Twitter accompanied by the following tweet: “#IfTheyGunnedMeDown which picture would they use.”
![A Black teenager in a suit looks off in the distance while holding a saxophone.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/TylerAtkinsTwitterPhoto1_FH232563.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=pOaKvN9w)
“Emancipation” (1865)
Thomas Nast's celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the end of the Civil War. Nast envisions a somewhat optimistic picture of the future of free blacks in the United States.
![Thomas Nast's celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the end of the Civil War.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1865_Emancipation_FH2125837.jpg?h=6ed13ab3&itok=UPAlxuxC)
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)
Nineteenth Century Evolution Chart
This late-nineteenth-century chart shows the supposed racial stages of evolution from ape to European that many scientists supported.
![Late nineteenth century chart showing six images displaying the supposed stages of racial evolution, beginning with an ape and ending with a white man.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Nineteenth_Century_Evolution_Chart_FH229388.jpg?h=bb8c9f74&itok=e0e8jHDz)
Glenn Ligon, Untitled - Four Etchings [D]
In this second black-on-black etching, Glenn Ligon also uses Ralph Ellison's quote from the prologue of his novel, Invisible Man (1952), though this one uses the complete quote, which ends "...figments of their imagination-indeed everything."
![Black on black etching that begins with "I am the Invisible Man…"](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/D11338_Medium_res_0.jpg?h=c978a40d&itok=EVvkRRuT)
Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Civil Rights Historical Investigation
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This resource connects our Civil Rights Historical Investigations unit with writing prompts that align with the expectations of the Common Core State Standards.
![Common Core: Civil Rights Cover](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-03/CommonCoreCivilRights_cvr.png?h=88ddef7e&itok=4J-1TEKp)
Democracy in Action: A Study Guide to Accompany the Film Freedom Riders
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Use this guide to the documentary film Freedom Riders to help students explore the stories of the brave activists who challenged segregation in the South in 1961.
![Democracy in Action: A Study Guide to Accompany the Film Freedom Riders](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Democracy_in_Action.jpg?h=50887407&itok=CFLQDGyp)