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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.
Before Apartheid
Understand the history of people living and settling in the South African region and explore how racial and ethnic identities created tension in the years leading to apartheid.
![Sol Plaatje was the co-founder of the African National Congress (ANC). As an activist and politician, he spent much of his life fighting for the enfranchisement and liberation of the South African people.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Sol_Plaatje.png?h=0bcf1b58&itok=yGWQuP50)
Early Apartheid: 1948-1970
Learn about the early development of apartheid as the white South African government formed a legal system of racial hierarchy and non-white South Africans resisted these laws.
![A group of women hold signs in demonstration against the pass laws in Cape Town on August 9, 1956, the same day as the massive women’s protest in Pretoria.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Democracy_1956_WomenResistPassLaws_FH281823.jpg?h=cb9047e7&itok=NA94IMQt)
Growing Resistance Meets Growing Repression
Investigate the resurgent wave of international and domestic anti-apartheid activism that led to increased violence before both sides compromised over a legal conclusion to apartheid.
![A group of mourners carry a United Democratic Front Banner during a mass funeral.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/1985_MournersCarryUDFBannerDuringMassFuneral_FH282024.jpg?h=30a9cc90&itok=53pmDBJm)
Transition to Democracy
Examine the continuing struggle for South Africa as it creates a representative democracy, attempts to heal from the legacy of apartheid, and searches for a new, inclusive identity.
![The signing of the Republic of South Africa's Constitution in May 1996.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/1996_SigningoftheSouthAfricanConstitution_FH281937.jpg?h=c4482f5d&itok=pkPRL5nQ)
South Carolina Legislature 1868
Photomontage of members of the first South Carolina legislature following the Civil War, mounted on card with each member identified.
![African American and Radical Republican members of the South Carolina Legislature in the 1870s.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/REC_03_First_South.jpg?h=e4d64d67&itok=cL1yI8GT)
Portrait of George Washington on the Dollar Bill (en español)
This is an image of the 1-dollar bill. This resource is in Spanish.
![Portrait of George Washington on the Dollar Bill](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-11/6%20%281%29.jpeg?h=50dc83c2&itok=RsuVNKU1)
10 Questions Framework Poster
Introduce students to the 10 Questions for Young Changemakers developed by Professor Danielle Allen from Harvard University and YPP Network.
![10 Questions Poster](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-10/The_10_Questions_Poster_01024_1.jpg?h=fa12e38a&itok=VvPLGPy0)
South African President P. W. Botha
South African President Pieter Willem Botha speaks to the National Party in Durban, South Africa, 1986.
![Older white South African man behind a podium speaking and raising an open right hand.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1986_SouthAfricanPresidentPWBotha_FH282026.jpg?h=a5f2f23a&itok=rp-QuN7D)
Voortrekker Monument
The Voortrekker Monument, located in the Pretoria region of South Africa, commemorates the history and migration of the Afrikaner people. The structure was designed by Gerard Moerdijk and was completed in 1949.
![Two women walking up steps to the entrance of a multi-story, square, granite monument that is decorated with four stone reliefs of animals beneath a large decorative arched window.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Voortrekker_Monument.jpeg?h=24dac1cd&itok=jXZcuHry)
Winter Floods Affect Informal Settlement Dwellers in South Africa
A young girl walks home after buying a bottle of paraffin for cooking and heating on June 19, 2016 in Khayelitsha, South Africa.
![A young girl walks home in Khayelitsha, South Africa after heavy rainfalls.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/2016_WinterFloodsAffectInformalSettlementDwellersinSouthAfrica_FH281940.jpg?h=a5f2f23a&itok=tztQ-8DZ)