Students examine the strategies of three key civil rights leaders, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael.

Students analyze Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech and consider how they can respond to King's challenge to create a more just world.

Through a video-based activity, students explore how Radical Reconstruction changed the nature of voting rights and democracy in the South.

Through a video-based activity, students examine America’s struggle for a stronger democracy during Reconstruction and today.

By examining periods of violence during the Reconstruction era, students learn about the potential backlash to political and social change.

Students consider how US history books, films, and other works of popular culture have misrepresented the history of the Reconstruction era.

Students learn about President Andrew Johnson and the Congressional Republican's conflicting visions of how to rebuild the nation after the Civil War.

Students examine how freed people in the United States sought to define freedom after Emancipation.

Students explore the ways that Emancipation and Radical Reconstruction altered the lives of many Americans.

Use this rich collection of Reconstruction era primary sources, videos, and a 3-week unit to engage your students in this pivotal period in US history and its legacies today.

Students define explicit, implicit, and confirmation bias, and examine why people sometimes maintain their beliefs in the face of contradictory information.