Eight Key Documents on Civil Rights

[The following pages present teachings activities for the following documents

Document 1: 14th Amendment

From Laws of the United States, 1st Session, 39th Congress, Part III, 1865-66, General Records of the U.S. Government, RG 11.

Document 2: Interstate Commerce Commission Order

Docket 21, Formal Dockets of the ICC, Records of the Interstate Commerce Commission, RG 134.

Document 3: Hale County, Alabama, Resolution

From file 54A-H 16.8, Judiciary Committee, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, RG 233.

Document 4: Photograph: "Separate But Equal"

From Letters to the Secretary of Agriculture re: NAACP, Records of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, RG 16.

Document 5: Baptist Ministers’ Union of Southern California Resolution

From tray 83A-J11, Records of the U.S. Senate, RG 46.

Document 6: North Caroline Resolution

From file 8/1 NO 55,629, box 1, 1954, Records of the Supreme Court of the United States, RG 267.

Document 7: Dawson Letter

From Accession No. NN-374-146, folder RDO, general file #1, Records of the Interstate Commerce Commission, RG 134.

Document 8: Bakke Syllabus]

Available from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

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Chicago: "Eight Key Documents on Civil Rights," Teaching With Documents, Volume 1 in Teaching With Documents: Using Primary Sources from the National Archives, ed. United States. National Archives and Records Administration and National Council for the Social Studies (Washington, D.C.: National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1989), Original Sources, accessed December 2, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UWII7NEWM6B8D5W.

MLA: . "Eight Key Documents on Civil Rights." Teaching With Documents, Volume 1, in Teaching With Documents: Using Primary Sources from the National Archives, edited by United States. National Archives and Records Administration and National Council for the Social Studies, Washington, D.C., National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1989, Original Sources. 2 Dec. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UWII7NEWM6B8D5W.

Harvard: , 'Eight Key Documents on Civil Rights' in Teaching With Documents, Volume 1. cited in 1989, Teaching With Documents: Using Primary Sources from the National Archives, ed. , National Archives Trust Fund Board, Washington, D.C.. Original Sources, retrieved 2 December 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UWII7NEWM6B8D5W.