Freedom Stories

14 items

Belinda Sutton, Petition to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1783

Activity

40 Min

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Sarah M. Grimké, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women, 1837

Activity

40 Min

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845

Activity

40 Min

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass on Abolition, 1845–1852

Activity

40 Min

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

The Rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln DBQ

Lesson

85 Min

Use this Lesson in conjunction with the Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation Decision Point to have students analyze Abraham Lincoln's rhetoric throughout his presidency.

Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment

Essay - 1937 Words

Essay

1937 Words

Explores the life and bravery of Robert Gould Shaw.

O. O. Howard and the Freedmen’s Bureau

Essay - 1957 Words

Essay

1957 Words

How did O.O. Howard fight for the rights of recently freed slaves?

Unit 5 Civics Connection: Civil Rights and Economic Freedom

Lesson

80 Min

A review lesson for Unit 5 (1877-1898) that asks students to reconsider how constitutional principles were applied during the time period.

Civil Disobedience across Time

Lesson - 1 Activities

Lesson

1 Activities

90 Min

Use this lesson with the Freedom Riders Narrative; The March on Birmingham Narrative; the Black Power Narrative; the Martin Luther King Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 1963 Primary Source; the Martin Luther King Jr., "I Have a Dream," August 28, 1963 Primary Source ;The Music of the Civil Rights Movement Lesson; and the Civil Rights DBQ Lesson to discuss the different aspects of the civil rights movement during the 1960s

90 Min