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- Suffrage: The changing role of women
- In this lesson, students use oral history excerpts and photographs to learn about the women's suffrage movement in the United States from a variety of perspectives.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Goodbye, Bill Of Rights!
- Students will enact a scene demonstrating life without one of the first ten amendments. Students will be put into groups of three or four and assigned a specific amendment to research.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies)
- By Greg Simmons.
- African Americans get the vote in eastern North Carolina
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.9
- After the Civil War, African American communities in eastern North Carolina, having already tasted freedom during the war, were ready to fight for political rights.
- Format: article
- Amending the U.S. Constitution
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.8
- Text of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, passed after the Civil War to abolish slavery and to guarantee the civil rights of African Americans.
- Format: constitution
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Reform movements across the United States
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.2
- In the 1830s and 1840s, a wave of social and political reform swept the United States. Various groups of reformers, often inspired by religion, worked to expand the vote, promote equal rights for women, improve labor conditions, build free public schools, limit alcohol use, and improve treatment of criminals and the insane.
- Format: article
- Women, then and now
- In this lesson, students will analyze images and a home demonstration pamphlet, a Cooperative Extension Work document from the Green 'N' Growing collection at Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University Libraries. The primary sources will help students assess the roles, opportunities, and achievements of women beginning in 1950.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Lisa Stamey.
- Reconstruction in North Carolina
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.3
- Brief history of events in North Carolina following the Civil War, 1866–1876.
- Format: article
- Women's “libbers”
- In this oral history excerpt, Rosamonde Boyd expresses her views on the women's liberation movement and contrasts it with the work she did to advance women's causes. In particular, she and the interviewer focus on feminist views of marriage.
- Format: audio
- North Carolina demands a declaration of rights
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 6.6
- North Carolina initially rejected the United States Constitution, insisting that it be amended and that a Declaration of Rights be added. The text of the proposed declaration and amendments is provided here with historical commentary noting which provisions found their way into the Bill of Rights.
- Format: document
- Governor Aycock on "the negro problem"
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 8.9
- Speech by North Carolina Governor Charles Brantley Aycock, 1903, in which Aycock proclaims both the absolute supremacy of the white race and the importance of education for all citizens. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: speech
- The Knights of Labor
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.10
- Excerpt from the 1878 Platform of the Knights of Labor, an early labor union. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: declaration
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- Women's history
- LEARN NC has selected several resources from our collections to help your students learn about women's history. Find lesson plans, websites, and articles to help your students learn about the achievements and experiences of women.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- The text of the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation even in public accommodations (particularly railroads), under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
- Format: court decision/primary source
- John Adams Hyman
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.12
- John Adams Hyman, a former slave, became the first black U.S. Representative from North Carolina, serving from 1873 to 1875.
- Format: biography
- Reading primary sources: An introduction for students
- A step-by-step guide for students examining primary sources, with specific questions divided into five layers of questioning.
- Format: article/learner's guide
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Lincoln is inaugurated
- Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address, delivered March 4, 1861. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: speech
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- The 2004 presidential election in historical context
- Historian William E. Leuchtenburg talks about past presidential elections and how the 2004 election fits or defies precedents.
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- 1835 amendments to the North Carolina Constitution
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.3
- Amendments to the North Carolina state constitution passed in 1835. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: constitution
- The Constitution of the United States
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 6.4
- An original print copy of the Constitution, 1787. Page 2 of 2 of the original printed Constitution. We...
- Format: constitution
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U.S. 1 (1971) was an important United States Supreme Court case dealing with the busing of students to promote integration in public schools.
- Format: court decision/primary source
