Freedom Stories
14 items
Belinda Sutton, Petition to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1783
Activity
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
Activity
40 Min
Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845
Activity
Activity
40 Min
Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.
William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass on Abolition, 1845–1852
Activity
Activity
40 Min
Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.
The Rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln DBQ
Lesson
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
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
Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 1963
Activity
Activity
40 Min
Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.
Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream,” August 28, 1963
Activity
Activity
40 Min
Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.
Freedom Riders
Essay - 2752 Words
Essay
2752 Words
How did the Freedom Riders fight to end segregation?
Music as Protest: “We Shall Overcome”
Activity
Activity
40 Min
Use this primary source imagery to analyze major events in history.
Barack Obama, Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention, July 27, 2004
Activity
Activity
40 Min
Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.