The curated resources linked below are an initial sample of the resources coming from a collaborative and rigorous review process with the EAD Content Curation Task Force.
This unit plan invites students to learn about the Civil Rights movement in Rhode Island while thinking more broadly about how conceptions of race and ethnicity change over time.
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The Rhode Island Historical Society
This Civil Rights unit covers the early days of the expansion of slavery in the United States through the momentous 1950s and 60s and into the modern Civil Rights Movement. Use primary documents, readings, activities and more to introduce your students to key concepts, events, and individuals of this facet of American history.

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iCivics, Inc.

This 8-lesson Civil Rights unit covers the early days of the expansion of slavery in the United States through the momentous 1950s and 60s and into the modern Civil Rights Movement. Use primary documents, readings, activities and more to introduce your students to key concepts, events, and individuals of this facet of American history.

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iCivics, Inc.

This unit uses primary documents and images to discover the ways state and local governments restricted the newly gained freedoms of African Americans after the Civil War. Students compare, contrast, and analyze post-war legislation, court decisions (including Plessy v. Ferguson), and a political cartoon by Thomas Nast to understand life in Jim Crow states.

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iCivics, Inc.

Are the tactics used by suffragists to fight for political power still effective? This video series explores four techniques that suffragists used to reshape the nation's democracy: protesting, organizing, branding, and lobbying.

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Smithsonian National Museum of American History

This film addresses citizenship, the power of the vote, and why women had to change the Constitution with the 19th Amendment to get the vote.

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Annenberg Classroom

In this lesson, students analyze a daring challenge to the legal and social order of the time: Susan B. Anthony’s casting of an illegal ballot in the 1872 presidential election.

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Facing History and Ourselves

This lesson explores the expansion of voting rights in the United States through different Constitutional amendments and laws. It also applies these lessons to current voting issues such as voter ID laws, felony disenfranchisement, and voting rights for the District of Columbia.
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The “Anthony Amendment” was introduced with no luck for 41 years. And even then, the movement wasn’t for everyone. Did the 19th Amendment achieve the goals of the women’s suffrage movement?

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New American History

This lesson plan examines the life of Catharine Paine Blaine, missionary, schoolteacher, and women’s rights activist who traveled from Seneca Falls, New York to Washington Territory in the 1850s. Using everyday items that Catharine brought with her to the Pacific Northwest, your students will explore how eastern settlers brought both objects and ideas with them as they traveled.
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Washington State Historical Society
Students will learn the how the American West led the way in the fight for women’s suffrage in the United States. Students will investigate how the women’s right to vote was won in each of the western states. Students are encouraged to research current rights for women in the United States today.

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Autry Museum of the American West

This collection of 8 World War I-era posters, accompanying guiding questions, and additional materials can be used to guide students through an investigation of the social, economic, and political consequences of the Great War. Educators can turn the collection into its own lesson plan, or use the gallery as a supplement to existing WWI lessons.

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Smithsonian National Museum of American History
