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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.
My Name
Consider the importance of African naming practices in South African poet Magoleng wa Selepe’s poem about the effects of colonialism on African identity.
![This Tswana-Venda wedding demonstrates the continued importance of traditional culture in contemporary South African society.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Democracy_2018_TswanaandVendaWedding_%20FH281155.jpg?h=4c3b389f&itok=V-EjaKiW)
Excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment
This reading contains excerpts from the Emanicipation Proclimation and the Thirteenth Amendment.
![An image of the first page of the Emancipation Proclamation.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Civil_Rights_1863_Emancipation_Proclomation_FH21380.jpg?h=8d9d8244&itok=FWL8uma0)
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.
![An image of the first page of the Emancipation Proclamation.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Civil_Rights_1863_Emancipation_Proclomation_FH21380.jpg?h=8d9d8244&itok=FWL8uma0)
Petition from the Colored Washerwomen
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)
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.
![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)
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)
They Fence Their Neighbors Away
Sioux chief Sitting Bull responds to different visions of land ownership in this speech excerpt.
![Portrait of Sitting Bull in black and white](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Sitting_Bull_by_D_F_Barry_ca_1883_Dakota_Territory_FH2178138e.jpg?h=582136a4&itok=0WFowJv9)
They Fence Their Neighbors Away (en español)
In Spanish, Sioux chief Sitting Bull responds to different visions of land ownership in this speech excerpt.
![Portrait of Sitting Bull in black and white](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Sitting_Bull_by_D_F_Barry_ca_1883_Dakota_Territory_FH2178138e.jpg?h=582136a4&itok=0WFowJv9)
Platform of the Workingmen’s Party of California
The political platform of the Workingmen's Party of California, a third party organized around eliminating competition for white laborers in the West and advocating for a ban on Chinese immigration.
![Chinese workers building the Loma Prieta Lumber Company's railroad in California.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Chinese_railroad_Workers_1880_FH2110498.jpg?h=7feeb858&itok=sJSfVjZM)
Women Rise Up Against Apartheid and Change the Movement
Activist Frances Baard details the struggle of Black South African women under apartheid and their active participation in anti-apartheid demonstrations, including the multiracial 1956 Women’s March on Pretoria.
![Frances Baard (1909–1997) worked as a domestic servant and then a teacher before turning to activism as a result of her experience of oppression and exploitation in South Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Democracy_1960_FrancesBaard_FH281818.jpg?h=04d92ac6&itok=Lpncs4vZ)