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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

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

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

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 while Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others look on.

Backstory: Give Us the Ballot from "LBJ and the Great Society"

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

W.E.B. Du Bois Papers

B.B. King Live in Hamburg, Germany, November 1971.

The Music of African American History

Participants, some carrying American flags, marching in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

I Have a Dream: The Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King and Malcolm X waiting for press conference, March 26, 1964.

Lesson 2: Black Separatism or the Beloved Community? Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Picturing America: Jacob Lawrence and Martin Puryear

Judy Richardson (center, holding notebook) with other SNCC staff workers

Grassroots Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Women

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

Everything Your Students Need to Know About Immigration History

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

NEH Connections

NEH programs, projects, and resources for educators

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The Jazz Ambassadors

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