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.
In this lesson, students consider the impact of the poll tax as a barrier to voting by examining four primary sources.

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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

This lesson introduces students to the importance of building a constituency to support or oppose public policies, using the case study of the Montgomery Bus Boycott as an example. Students read primary documents related to the boycott and discuss how the documents illustrate strategic efforts by boycott leaders to build public support.

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Constitutional Rights Foundation

In this lesson, students will learn about the initial phase of the grape workers’ strike that occurred in California’s San Joaquin Valley from 1965 to 1966 by exploring images related to the farmworkers' movement, and by watching a video that explains the events that occurred in the first year of the strike to analyze the strategies used during this period of the farmworkers’ movement and reflect on the impact these strategies had.

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Facing History and Ourselves

Students will discuss the importance of Civil Discourse and discuss challenging contemporary issues.

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Bill of Rights Institute

Students will explore the struggle for equality during the 'Gilded Age' (1877-1898), particularly the changing role of government in the wake of industrialization and the ongoing endeavor for civil rights.

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Bill of Rights Institute

Students will explore the philosophy of modern liberalism and explore various views concerning the role of government.

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Bill of Rights Institute

This lesson explores desegregation in Arkansas. Through the use of primary and secondary sources, students will understand the story of desegregation in Arkansas.
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Arkansas Digital Archives
This activity and resource collection guides students through answering a document-based question about the March on Washington. Using 6 supporting documents/images and a page of historical background, students answer the question, "Is the March on Washington evidence of the power of grassroots organizing or of charismatic leadership?"

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Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Students analyze women’s petitions to Congress from five different eras to identify the issues women petitioned about, place the petitions in the context of their time, and understand how women have used the First Amendment right to petition to make their voices heard.

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National Archives Center for Legislative Archives

This lesson explores how the government balances individual liberties and the needs of the nation during times of crisis.

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Bill of Rights Institute

During World War II, the United States government forcibly removed over 120,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific Coast. These individuals, two-thirds of them U.S. citizens, were sent to ten camps built throughout the western interior of the United States. In this webcast, panelists explore this period in American history and consider how fear and prejudice can upset the delicate balance between the rights of citizens and the power of the state.

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Smithsonian National Museum of American History

In this lesson, students will investigate the the confluence of factors, including the quickening pace of industrialization, urbanization, increasing immigration, and a growing presence on the world stage that faced America in the late 19th Century. These pressures gave rise to various political movements, each seeking to provide answers to the most serious questions of the day. Overall, Americans found answers to these issues in the ideas of the Progressives. From both major political parties, the Progressives offered solutions to economic, social, and political problems, in some ways using and in others changing the American system of government that had existed for a century at that point.

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Ashbrook/TeachingAmericanHistory
