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![A group of high school students sit at desks in conversation.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-10/AdobeStock_254378868.jpg?itok=f6YAphey)
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.
Lucy Tibbs
Learn about Lucy Tibbs, survivor of the Memphis Massacre whose courageous testimony led to the passage of the 14th amendment.
![A featured painting of Lucy Tibbs 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/LucyTibbs_FH249665.jpg?h=654c938a&itok=wl5WP2GI)
John T. Fisher II
Learn about John T. Fisher II, a community leader and organizer who helped united Memphis after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
![A black and white featured painting of John T. Fisher II 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/JohnTFisherII_FH249669.jpg?h=84d5ef99&itok=RLpVPrm4)
Dr. Sheldon Korones
Learn about Dr. Sheldon Korones, founder of one of the oldest and largest neonatal intensive care units in the United States.
![A black and white painting of Dr. Sheldon Korones 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/DrSheldonKorones_FH249678.jpg?h=70ed9a50&itok=cERntNYX)
Ida B. Wells
Learn about Ida B. Wells, an African American journalist and early civil rights activist.
![A black and white painting of Ida B. Wells 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/IdaBWells_FH249661.jpg?h=8fe388c5&itok=E0zUwEjT)
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)
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)
Our Kind of People (en español)
In Spanish, 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)