Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore blackface minstrelsy in modern America.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Beyond Busing: School Desegregation in Boston

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore school desegregation in Boston.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Fannie Lou Hamer Civil Rights Movement in Rural Mississippi

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to explore Fannie Lou Hamer and the civil rights movement in rural Mississippi.
Primary
Other

Teaching Tolerance: Hatred and the Holocaust

For Students 3rd - 8th
These resources can help teachers teach about the holocaust and genocide. They include excerpts from primary sources and discussion questions.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Understanding Character: The Life of Percy Julian

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this interactive lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch video dramatizations of Percy Julian's struggles with racism and how he refused to let it limit his possibilities in life.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Power of Propaganda in World War Ii: Wartime Propaganda

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive lesson, students use primary sources, including posters, documents, artifacts from The International Museum of World War II, and videos, to examine how and why propaganda was used by combatant nations with such...
Lesson Plan
Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Children in the Civil Rights Movement

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Meet ordinary children of the past who inspire us even today. Step back in time to a United States full of racism and segregation. Students will explore the Civil Rights Movement and leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They'll see...
Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Virtual Professional Learning Series

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Our Virtual Professional Learning Series is created for teachers-by teachers-to bring together content experts and educators from all backgrounds. With an emphasis on fun, engaging, accessible, and free tools for classrooms, these...
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Creating a Caring Classroom Community

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help early learners build healthy social and emotional skills with this special collection on promoting kindness, being just, and creating a caring classroom community! These activities, videos, tips, articles, and guides offer...
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: All About Community

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use these ARTHUR activities to help children understand themselves and those around them. Topics include self-esteem, understanding others, and cultural diversity.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Community & Self Help, Making of African American Identity:v. 3

For Students 9th - 10th
An interview illustrating some of the ways community functioned in the lives of African Americans. It explores how external pressures of racism brought African Americans together to form fraternal organizations and entire towns.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Experiencing War: African Americans: Fighting Two Battles

For Students 9th - 10th
Online personnel narratives by African American soldiers who participated in World War II.
Website
Digital History

Digital History: Race

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the racial unrest in the turbulent times right after World War I when African Americans were moving north and black veterans were demanding their civil rights. Find out about the violent race riot in Tulsa in 1921, and the...
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Current Events and Social Issues

For Students 9th - 10th
This course outline offers resources for studying controversial social issues of both the present and past.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Unbiased Language

For Students 9th - 10th
Gives guidelines to sensitive language by presenting preferred substitute words or phrases for potentially offensive ones. Covers sexism, race, age, sexual orientation, disabilities, and language that patronizes, demeans, excludes or...
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic History Mystery: Civil Rights Movement 1: Coretta Scott King

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery person, Coretta...
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic History Mystery: Roaring '20S: Ossian Sweet

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery person, Ossian Sweet.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Racism in the Media

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video from Wide Angle, an Afro-Brazilian model discusses the predominance of whites in the Brazilian advertising industry.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: At the University of Brasilia

For Students 9th - 10th
Wide Angle video addresses the controversy surrounding affirmitive action and racial quotas at the University of Brasilia. [3:11]
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Complications of Identity

For Students 9th - 10th
Wide Angle video tells the story of two identical twins, one of whom was classified as white and the other as black, highlighting the difficulty in defining race in Brazilian society. [2:53]
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Race and Politics

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, one of Brazil's few black senators discusses racial discrimination in Brazilian governmental, political and economic life.
Handout
University of Virginia

U of Virginia: Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

For Students 9th - 10th
Participants in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study were never told that they had syphilis. Instead, the doctors and scientists said they had "bad blood." Find out what took place during this study, and the social and political consequences...
Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Changing Attitudes in America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of lesson plans that help teachers examine diversity, institutional racism, and other topics in social justice.