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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.
You Worked Long Hours
Essie Favrot gives a firsthand account of working as a domestic worker for a white Southern family.
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Firsthand Accounts of the Great Depression
Read and listen to firsthand accounts of the shame, humiliation, and deprivation experienced by those who lived through the Great Depression.
![Possibly related to: Negroes in the lineup for food at meal time in the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/2014_FloodRefugeesInLineForFood_FH131401.png?h=ce8ade45&itok=HoBCcD3n)
H. J. Williams Recalls Learning About the Rules of Jim Crow in Yazoo County, Mississippi
H. J. Williams, in an interview about living in the segregated South, describes when he first realized that blacks and whites were treated differently.
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H. J. Williams Recalls Lynching in Yazoo County, Mississippi
H. J. Williams, in an interview about living in the segregated South, shares a memory of a lynching that took place in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
![African American man kneeling by bodies of murdered African American people. In background sign reads, "the White Liners were here."](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/1876_IsThisARepublicanFormOfGovernment_FH2169996.png?h=a1566bed&itok=A3Krfo4f)
H. J. Williams Recalls Work and School In Yazoo County, Mississippi
H. J. Williams describes what it was like to go to school and work in the segregated South.
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Excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment
This reading contains excerpts from the Emanicipation Proclimation and the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment (en español)
In Spanish, this reading contains excerpts from the Emanicipation Proclimation and the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Petition from the Colored Washerwomen
In 1866, Black women laundry workers in Jackson, Mississippi, joined together to protest low wages.
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Petition from the Colored Washerwomen (en español)
In Spanish, in 1866, Black women laundry workers in Jackson, Mississippi, joined together to protest low wages.
![Photo shows a log cabin with two African American men seated outside and an African American woman standing in the doorway of a slave or sharecropper dwelling.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Savannah_Georgia_Early_Negro_Life_1867_FH2178129.jpg?h=2b78d577&itok=h-7u5TrP)
Speech by Frances Watkins Harper: “We Are All Bound Up Together”
Read an excerpt from an 1866 speech by Black activist and suffragist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. This reading is available in Spanish.
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Speech by Frances Watkins Harper: “We Are All Bound Up Together” (en español)
In Spanish, read an excerpt from an 1866 speech by Black activist and suffragist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
![Three-quarter length portrait of Frances E.W. Harper](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Civil_Rights_Frances_EW_Harper_Portrait_1898_FH2178132.jpg?h=785073cc&itok=pVSN1dAY)