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Closer Reading

Jazz Appreciation Month: Women in Jazz

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Building A More Perfect Union Lesson Book

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“Remember” by Joy Harjo

Teacher's Guide

A Literary Glossary for Literature and Language Arts

Teacher's Guide

Maya Angelou: A Phenomenal Woman

Teacher's Guide

The Works of Langston Hughes

Civil Rights in the U.S.

Resources on movements
for change in the U.S.
for K-12 humanities classrooms

An Equal Rights Amendment demonstration proceeds down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the U.S. Capitol July 9, 1978.

U.S. Civil Rights Movements of the 20th Century

Civil Rights leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963.

Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement

Images of Freedom Riders at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia.

JFK, Freedom Riders, and the Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his famous, “I Have a Dream,” speech during the Aug. 28, 1963, march on Washington, D.C.

Let Freedom Ring: The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000), The Migration of the Negro Panel no. 57

Picturing America: Jacob Lawrence and Martin Puryear

Seal of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Birth of a Nation, the NAACP, and Civil Rights

Photo of Cesar Chavez with farm workers in California, ca. 1970.

"Sí, se puede!": Chávez, Huerta, and the UFW

Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas

Places and People of the Civil Rights Movement

Portrait of W.E.B. DuBois, c. 1907.

W.E.B. Du Bois Papers

“Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner,” by Thomas Nast, Harper’s Weekly (20 November 1869)

Everything Your Students Need to Know About Immigration History

NEH Connections

NEH programs, projects, and resources for educators

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The Jazz Ambassadors

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Ask an NEH Expert: Wide Research