The Price of Cigarettes By tallying the cost of buying cigarettes, students will be better able to decide whether to...		Chinese Words and Phrases Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your students simple Chinese words.
Indentured Servants Use a lesson that helps students to compare and contrast European American indentured servitude...		Chinese Yuan Familiarize students with China's monetary unit, the Yuan. Practice simple algebraic equations.
Conspiracy Theories Behind Martin Luther King's Assassination Listed are the various conspiracy theories regarding Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s...		William Edward Burghardt DuBois Article about prominent African American W.E.B. DuBois, including related Web sites, and a...
Timeline of the Modern Civil Rights Movement A chart outlining the Civil Rights movement in the United States.		Medgar Evers Learn about the life of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, who organized the first economic...
Death of Martin Luther King Jr.: A Proclamation This is Lyndon B. Johnson's proclamation after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Use...		Abolitionists Working Together Students learn about the women in the abolitionist movement by reading a poem, a speech, and...
Harry Truman's Executive Order: 9981 Read Truman's Executive order, which ended segregation in the U.S. Armed Forces.		African-Americans and Others Fight Discrimination Ask students to read and answer related questions about the state of racial equality in the...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life This brief biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. can be used with the Civil Rights Leader lesson...		Jesse Jackson Learn more about the life of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson.
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Little Rock Response The text of Eisenhower's speech concerning desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas.		Thurgood Marshall Learn more about the life of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience The full text of Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" on the involvement of the government in the...		Barbara Jordan Short article about Barbara Jordan.
Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Speech The full text of Booker T. Washington's speech about civil rights.		James Meredith Learn about Civil Rights leader James Meredith, who in 1961 was denied admission to the...