Digital Collections and Narratives of Race: Getting Started

Primary Sources
An excellent source useful for teaching students the importance of primary sources and how to use them.

The Library of Congress recently launched two new applications to introduce students to primary sources and their uses. This article details these apps, DBQuest and Case Maker, and their classroom uses.

Use these worksheets — for photos, written documents, artifacts, posters, maps, cartoons, videos, and sound recordings — to teach your students the process of document analysis.

The online tool for teaching with documents, from the National Archives

Teacher-created, classroom-tested lesson plans using primary sources from the Library of Congress.

The Zinn Education Project website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. Its goal is to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula.

NEA has established this page to help educators integrate multicultural and diversity education into the K - 12 classroom experience. The following resources consist of NEA Web pages with information about multicultural and diversity education, books for multicultural educators, and web sites containing multicultural education curriculum.

A collection of resources for educators including free handouts, awareness quizzes, the Social Justice News Service, information on the Social Justice Speeches Project, a multicultural song index, awareness activities, information on 'Voices! Intercultural Poetry Exchange,' plus quips and quotations.

Resources for Change is a clearing-house for anti-discrimination education resources and is designed for educators and individuals committed to making positive change. It is a project of the Access to Media Education Society.

Multicultural, anti-bias, and diversity activities and exercises. An EdChange and Equity Literary Institute project.

Activities from Penn State University, promoting the importance of diversity to people of all ages.

Discover 29,472,622 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.

Includes photos, recordings, maps, texts, and more.

SoJust is a collection of historic speeches, songs, poetry, and essays on human rights and social justice. It is a project of EdChange, a source of professional development, research, and resources for diversity, multiculturalism, and cultural competence.

The digital databases includes over 2,300 original photographs as well as over 1,500 pages from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior from 1851 to 1908 and six Indian treaties negotiated in 1855.

Includes images, maps, texts, and educational materials of thirteen defining migrations that formed and transformed African America

A selection of 410 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.

Interviews with civil rights activists

Oral history interviews, photos, newspapers, and other primary sources that document the Japanese American experience from immigration through redress with a strong focus on the World War II mass incarceration.

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter.

Includes texts and images

Thousands of images and stories of South Asian Americans.

Digitized images, photos, paintings, posters, and texts documenting the Southeast Asian American experience

The Korean American Digital Archive brings more than 13,000 pages of documents, over 1,900 photographs, and about 180 sound files together in one searchable collection that documents the Korean American community during the period of resistance to Japanese rule in Korea and reveal the organizational and private experience of Koreans in America between 1903 and 1965.

Primary source accounts: photographs, oral histories, videos, essays and historical documents from the United Farm Worker Delano Grape Strikers and the UFW Volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement.

The Onda Latina Collection consists of 226 digitally preserved audio programs including interviews, music, and informational programs related to the Mexican American community and their concerns from the radio series "The Mexican American Experience" and "A esta hora conversamos" the Longhorn Radio Network, 1976-1982.

Photos and documents from the University of Washington Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Projects