Since the late 1970s, the National Archives education program has provided educators with the methods and materials for teaching with documents. The lessons below relate to the history of Jim Crow and the immediate post-Jim Crow era.

The Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

• The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
  http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/blacks_in_civil_war/blacks_in_civil_war.html

The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)

• Photographs of the 369th Infantry and African Americans during World War I
  http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/wwi_369th_infantry/wwi_369th_infantry.html

Postwar United States (1945-1970s)

• Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education
  http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/brown_v_board_documents/brown_v_board.html



• Jackie Robinson: Beyond the Playing Field
  http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/jackie_robinson/jackie_robinson.html



• The Many Faces of Paul Robeson
  http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/paul_robeson/paul_robeson.html



• Court Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Memphis Sanitation Workers
  http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/memphis_v_mlk/memphis_v_mlk.html

Comtemporary United States (1968 to the present)

• The Civil Rights Act and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/civil_rights_act/civil_rights_act.html