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The history of race in America encompasses questions of freedom, justice, equality, and citizenship. Explore topics including the Reconstruction era, the once-influential theories of eugenics, the modern Civil Rights Movement, and current struggles over racial equity.

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Teaching Mockingbird

Learn how to incorporate civic education, ethical reflection and historical context into a literary exploration of Harper Lee's novel, To Kill A Mockingbird.

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Race & Membership/Eugenics

Exploring the Relationship between Scout/Jean Louise and Calpurnia

Students broaden their understanding of the relationship between Scout and Calpurnia by pairing scenes from Harper Lee’s two novels with a historical account from a Southern domestic worker.

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Identity and Individuality: Exploring Art & Literature

Students use works by visual artist Glenn Ligon and writer Zora Neale Hurston to examine questions about their own identity.

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Brown Girl Dreaming

Through using free-verse poetry, the author shares her childhood memories of growing up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.

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Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Choices in Little Rock

This resource provides writing prompts and strategies that align our Choices in Little Rock unit with the expectations of the Common Core State Standards.

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Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Civil Rights Historical Investigation

This resource provides writing prompts and strategies that align Civil Rights Historical Investigations with the expectations of the Common Core State Standard.

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Justice & Human Rights

Farewell to Manzanar

Uprooted from their home, Seven-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family were sent to live at Manzanar internment camp with ten thousand other Japanese Americans in 1942.

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Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird

This documentary traces the creation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and discusses how the work has since become an American classic.

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How It Feels to Be Colored Me

Zora Neale Hurston describes her sense of identity and experience being a black woman in this 1928 essay.

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Race & Membership/Eugenics
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Imitation of Life

A struggling young actress with a six-year-old daughter sets up housekeeping with a black widow and her light-skinned eight-year-old daughter who rejects her mother by trying to pass for white.

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Little Things Are Big

Writer Jesus Colon reflects on a dilemma he experienced on a late-night New York train.

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Teaching Mockingbird

Use this resource to transform how you teach Harper Lee’s novel by integrating historical context, documents, and sources that reflect the African American voices absent from Mockingbird's narration.

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