WORKSHEETS
Enhance understanding with a teaching guide that offers suggestions for talking to your students about civil and human…
Study the African American experience with The Souls of Black Folk, a series of essays by W.E.B. Du Bois. Use this…
Learn about "The Famous Five," women who made strides for women's rights and representation in Canada. Then, children…
REFERENCE
An article about U.S. constitutional rights and the U.N.'s Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Read about the wage gap, the history of pay inequity, and the Equal Pay Act in the United States.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became the president of Liberia in January, 2006. The first woman ever elected head of an African…
A brief article about Ralph Johnson Bunche, the first African American to win a Nobel Prize.
The full text of Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" on the involvement of the government in the lives of citizens.
Learn about Civil Rights leader James Meredith, who in 1961 was denied admission to the University of Mississippi…
This article explains the origins of Women's History Month, celebrated in March. Help your students understand the…
ACTIVITIES
Help your students celebrate Human Rights Day with this profile of the teenage human rights activist phenom - Greta…
Preparation assignments, group discussion questions about lynching and civil rights, and many other resources are…
BOOK GUIDES
Begin a chapter-by-chapter study of Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr. with this printable teacher's guide.…
Study the life and work of civil rights leader W.E.B. Dubois with your students. Use the questions in this guide for Up…
TEACHING RESOURCE
This article explains the history and controversy behind the 2008 Summer Olympic Games that were held in Beijing, China.…