K-12 Resources for Teaching About the American South
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![Image of Lumbee Men Fighting KKK](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/White_men_and_Robeson_County_indians_%28Lumbee_Indians%29_in_fight-armed_skirmish_%28State%27s_Exhibit_No.6%29._Photo_taken_by_Bill_Shaw%2C_Fayetteville_Observer_newspaper_photographer._Photo_used_as_state%27s_%288224422682%29.jpg?itok=ysbEoP7U)
Lumbee Fight for Justice: the Battle of Hayes Pond in Maxton, NC
View Lesson![Image of the Appalachian Mountains](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/default.jpg?itok=GukK1m7W)
Affrilachia
View Lesson![Image of Fayetteville St. in Durham, 1940](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Fayetteville_st.jpg?itok=hI5T_wAK)
Durham’s Hayti Community: Urban Renewal or Urban Removal?
View Lesson![Photograph of Ida B. Wells](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Mary_Garrity_-_Ida_B._Wells-Barnett_-_Google_Art_Project_-_restoration_crop.jpg?itok=j8PLV84l)
A Red Record
View Lesson![Drawing of people escaping enslavement](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Slave-Runaways__02a.jpg?itok=FyNiVpE-)
“Stealing a Little Freedom”: Enslaved Runaways in North Carolina
View Lesson![Front Cover of the Book Crow by Barbara Wright](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/crow.jpg?itok=wlneoD8t)
Exploring Life in 1898 Wilmington & the Wilmington Coup with CROW, a novel for young adults
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Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina
View Lesson![Image of activists participating in the Journey of Reconciliation](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/JourneyofReconciliation.jpg?itok=rJPXtlno)
Journey of Reconciliation, 1947
View Lesson![Photograph of Frederick Douglass](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/frederick-douglass-new-reppublic-800.jpg?itok=vplEsgAg)
Exploring the Hypocrisy of American Slavery with Frederick Douglass "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
View Lesson![Sket of Hotel De'Afrique](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-05-27%20at%2011.07.30%20AM.png?itok=gnfEbCX_)
Coastal Freedom Seeks, Hotel D'Afrique, Roanoke Island Freedman's Colony & James City
View Lesson![](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/19174614598_16c2ec1108_o.jpg?itok=CkxLTECT)
Prohibition, Bootlegging, & the Origins of NASCAR
View Lesson![A notice inviting citizens of Ashboro to attend a meeting opposing "ku klux democracy"](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Ashboro-Notice-lg.jpg?itok=9aXjMFyt)
From Wyatt Outlaw to the “Kirk Holden War"
View Lesson![Image of Ida B. Wells with text Ida B. Wells as Journalist, Advocate & Educator](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/IBW%20Open%20and%20Close%20Slides.png?itok=2T9epuu5)
Ida B. Wells and Her Light of Truth
View Lesson![](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/00BlackRegimentsD_0.jpg?itok=BeYY1IGt)
Fighting for Freedom: Black Contributions to the Civil War
View Lesson![Political cartoon showing the inequalities in public transit under Jim Crow](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/JimCrowCar2.jpg?itok=R9SPjBrx)
Plessy v. Ferguson & the Roots of Segregation
View Lesson![Image of the painting, "A Tragic Prelude"](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/THUMBNAIL001L.jpg?itok=a0u0FzJ2)
Seeking Historical Detectives to Discover Who Was John Brown
View Lesson![Photo of George Henry White](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/georgehenrywhite.jpeg?itok=CPlItwYO)
George Henry White: The American Phoenix
View Lesson![A Home on the Field book cover](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Screenshot%202020-07-17%2014.07.34.png?itok=m09i6zeb)
Learning About Latinx Immigration in North Carolina with“A Home on the Field”
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Resistance, Resilience, & Strength: The Life of Harriet Ann Jacobs
View Lesson![Refugee slaves in the Great Dismal Swamp before the Civil War, painted 1888](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Great_Dismal_Swamp-Fugitive_Slaves.jpg?itok=TVjyCT49)
Freedom Seeking Across North Carolina
View Lesson![](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Color-film-strip-depicting-various-photos-of-scenes-and-statistics-from-c.1949-1950%E2%80%99s-Duplin-County-Schools-PhC.188.-From-Photograph-Collections-State-Archives-of-North-Carolina-school-house..jpg?itok=zzAK3qcV)
The History of Black Education in North Carolina: A Teaching Guide for Educators
View Lesson![](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Civil-Rights-songs-album_0.jpg?itok=hXStxtpp)
Freedom Music: From Spirituals to Protest Songs
View Lesson![Photograph of George Moses Horton](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/George-Moses-Horton-216x300.jpg?itok=jenb0k0K)
The Poetry of Resistance: George Moses Horton
View Lesson![](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Imperial_foods_-_cooker_2.jpg?itok=877U9iVp)
The Hamlet Fire: Public Policy & Workplace Safety
View Lesson![Image of Anti-Slavery Mass Meeting notice](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/h000397.jpg?itok=Zaz6dBR9)
American Abolitionists
View Lesson![](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/UNCPauliMurray.png?itok=UYZLSjRX)
Pauli Murray: Civil & Women's Rights Trailblazer
View Lesson![Political cartoon of female spies](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/women-spies-image.jpg?itok=cZenhNW7)
Female Spies in the Civil War
View Lesson![Image of African American man standing outside at a "Colored Waiting Room" at a bus stop in Durham, NC.](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/jim%20crow%20nc.jpg?itok=0y8xTvBK)
Jim Crow in North Carolina
View Lesson![Postcard of Durham's Black Wall St.](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/black%20wall%20st.png?itok=jP91HyYr)
Surviving and Thriving Despite Jim Crow: Durham’s “Black Wall Street”
View Lesson![Image of Freedmen School](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/D63941ED-C685-0B37-52F9C78B06E791BB.jpg?itok=Zp_Nd0Yk)
North Carolina’s Settlements of Freedmen During the Civil War: The Roanoke Island Freedmen’s Colony and the Trent River Settlement
View Lesson![](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/usct-come_and_join_us-brother-copy_large.jpg?itok=DYtYobu7)
North Carolina's 35 USCT
View Lesson![Nat Turner Urging the Slaves to Rebellion](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/f15ed10fae69a0dd21fe984a66ed7213.jpg?itok=bGFFPzZi)
Slave Resistance
View Lesson![](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/00BlackRegimentsD.jpg?itok=ZMkXPDa2)
Fighting for Freedom: Black Contributions to the Civil War
View Lesson![Image of 12 Reasons Women Should Vote Pamphlet](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/CdCt4NAWIAArB0b.jpg?itok=AjCV1qqN)
Women's Rights & the NC Constitution
View Lesson![Picture of Tuskegee Sysphilis Experiment Victims](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Tuskegee-syphilis-experiment-test-subjects.gif?itok=jbOqIcEt)
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
View Lesson![Image of Freedom Hill historical marker](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Freedomhill.jpg?itok=fHuz1F9y)
Against All Odds:The African American Founding of Princeville, North Carolina
View Lesson![Picture of Stokley Carmichael speaking at a HBCU](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Screenshot%202020-07-01%2015.12.37.png?itok=2t2OfJmj)
The Influence & Impactof Historically Black Colleges and Universities on the Civil Rights Movement
View Lesson![](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/1280px-Nina_Simone_1965_-_restoration1.jpg?itok=GVVvgdzn)
NO FEAR: The Extraordinary Artistry of Nina Simone
View Lesson![An African American farmer plowing a field with a mule.](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/40-acres-and-a-mule.jpg?itok=6tySQg-v)
Talking About Reparations: A Civll Conversation
View Lesson![Image of striking worker struggling with National Guardsman](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Loray-Mill-STRIKE.jpg?itok=D4-3pdrH)
The Loray Mill Strike & Ella May Wiggins
View Lesson![](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Uncle_Marian_-_crop_%26_levels.jpg?itok=wAYUHw_G)
Five Pillars of Islam: Practice, Survival, Resistance and Adaption from Africa to the Americas
View Lesson![Image of fried chicken, macaroni & cheese, fried okra, and collard greens](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/soul_food.jpg?itok=eIACMYve)
"Our Story is Told Through Our Plates": Southern Foodways
View Lesson![Image of an sit-in songs album cover](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Civil-Rights-songs-album.jpg?itok=E_lzswYb)
Freedom Songs
View Lesson![Robert F. Williams looking at his FBI Wanted poster](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/robert_williams-3-610cd.png?itok=CBm8rOw3)
How Should Robert F. Williams Be Remembered?
View Lesson![Cover of program for the National American Women's Suffrage Association procession, showing woman, in elaborate attire, with cape, blowing long horn, from which is draped a "votes for women" banner, on decorated horse, with U.S. Capitol in background.](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/1920px-Official_program_-_Woman_suffrage_procession_March_3%2C_1913_-_crop.jpg?itok=Vb84_4h2)
Women's Suffrage
View Lesson![Remarkable Journey logo](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/images.jpg?itok=8VGJyI09)
Teaching Guide forRemarkable Journey: Founding the Asian Indian Community in North Carolina
View Lesson![Version of image: kneeling slave in chains. Text on back: 'Negro Woman, who sittest pining in captivity and weepest over thy sick child: though no one seeth thee, God seeth thee: though no one pitieth thee, God pitieth thee; raise thy voice forlorn and abandoned one: call upon him from amidst thy bonds for assuredly He will hear thee.'](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/triptych.brynmawr.edu_.jpg?itok=YirJWz0O)
Abolitionism, Quakers, & the Underground Railroad in North Carolina
View Lesson![Image of sign](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Masjid2-300x224.jpg?itok=Tdc7P5pQ)
Five Pillars of Islam: Practice, Survival, Resistance and Adaption from Africa to the Americas
View Lesson![Fanny Lou Hamer speaking at a protest](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/wgbh.brightspotcdn.com_.jpeg?itok=yAEnPlc2)
Unsung Women of the Civil Rights Movement
View Lesson![Photo of students attending the Carlisle Indian School](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Carlisle_pupils.jpg?itok=e0PudA6i)
The Miseducation of Indigenous People
View Lesson![Martin Luther King, Jr., half-length portrait, facing left, speaking at microphones, during anti-war demonstration, New York City](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/service-pnp-cph-3c10000-3c11000-3c11100-3c11165v.jpg?itok=ndZAAczg)
African Americans and the Vietnam War
View Lesson![Image of NC Eugenics Board historical marker](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/NC-eugenics-board-1024x668.jpg?itok=6z_T4I3K)
Against Their Will: North Carolina’s Eugenics Program & In re Moore
View Lesson![Ad for enslaved person that ran away](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/libcdm1.uncg_.edu_.jpg?itok=r89-FTeE)
Halifax County, the Roanoke River and Freedom Seeking
View Lesson![Image of Union encampment during the Civil War](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/asthewarturns.jpg?itok=_Eof9NEb)
As the War Turns: Exploring the Drama of the Civil War
View Lesson![Image of Governor Terry Sanford talking to African American school children](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Screenshot%202020-07-01%2012.14.18.png?itok=wS4ETR__)
Poor Power: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty & Inequality in 1960s America
View Lesson![Image of Billy Graham revival](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/11928157394_fd82c92d66_o.jpg?itok=JjF_XuES)
Religion in the American South
View Lesson![Sketch of a Bread Riot in Richmond](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/5cfc51312ffca.image_.jpg?itok=zB036M6w)
The Salisbury Bread Riot
View Lesson![Image of New York Herald Headline](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/NY-Herald.jpg?itok=i6462pQw)
The 1898 Coup in Wilmington, NC
View Lesson![Image of Horace Carter](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/horace%20carter.jpeg?itok=IbKyLh8x)
The Editor and the Dragon: How Horace Carter Fought the KKK in North Carolina
View Lesson![Photograph of Frederick Douglass as a young man](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/1280px-Frederick_Douglass_as_a_younger_man_0.jpg?itok=prk2tFeD)
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
View Lesson![Image of statue honoring African American troops who fought in the Civil War](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/africanamericantroopsincivilwar.jpg?itok=phpIBpga)
African American Troops in the Civil War
View Lesson![Wilmington 10 at a press conference.](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/wilmington-10.jpg?itok=fUX-P6v-)
The Wilmington 10: Criminal Justice & Exonheration
View Lesson![Image of Harriet Jacobs in a chair](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Harriet_Ann_Jacobs1894.png?itok=dLslq-zs)
Resistance, Resilience, & Strength: The Life of Harriet Ann Jacobs
View Lesson![Photo of Greensboro Massacre historical marker](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/gboro%20massacre.jpg?itok=UJPR2Ey8)
The 1979 Greensboro Massacre: A Lesson in Truth & Reconciliation in the United States?
View Lesson![Photograph of Elizabeth Keckley](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/ElizabethKeckly.jpg?itok=s2PoonqK)
Elizabeth Keckly: From Slavery to Celebrity
View Lesson![Image from the People Who Could Fly Short Film](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Screenshot%202020-07-08%2015.50.35.png?itok=NOexDCvj)
African Folk Tales: Resistance, Hope and Freedom
View Lesson![Panel of SERVICE mural](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/service%20mural.jpeg?itok=_O2FDOSK)
Exploring African American Leadership & Service in North Carolina
View Lesson![Image of map of 1961 Freedom Rides](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/freedomrides2.jpg?itok=9hxum8VC)
The Freedom Rides of 1961
View Lesson![Map of the Trail of Tears](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS.jpg?itok=B1AMZL9Z)
Tales and Trails of Betrayal: America’s Indian Removal Policies
View Lesson![Cartoon of Henry Box Brown](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/boxbrown.png?itok=omj9CiON)
Unboxing Henry “Box” Brown
View Lesson![Image of a Koran in a Mosque](https://amsouth.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/lesson_tile/public/external-content.duckduckgo.com__0.jpeg?itok=oJBwujdW)