8 M2A - Working with Evidence: Taking a Stand

Supporting Materials

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Equal Rights for Women Speech

Text of the "Equal Rights for Women" speech by Shirley Chisholm on May 21, 1969.
Sources: Congressional Record - Extensions of Remarks E4165-6.

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I Have a Dream...

'I HAVE A DREAM ..."

(Copyright 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King
At the "March on Washington"

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Lyndon Johnson, “The Great Society,” speech made on May 22, 1964

Johnson describes his domestic agenda and vision for a better America.
May 22, 1964

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Modern History Sourcebook: Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a Woman?", December 1851

Text of the December 1851 speech by Sojourner Truth.

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Solitude

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born in Johnstown, Wisconsin and her poetry was being published by the time she graduated from high school. Her poetry was very popular, generally written in plain, rhyming verse. Her works include Poems of Passion (1883), A Woman of the World (1904), Poems of Peace (1906...

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The Breadwinner

Parvana felt the shadow before she saw it, as the man moved between her and the sun. Turning her head, she saw the dark turban that was the uniform of the Taliban. A rifle was slung across his chest as casually as her father's shoulder bag had been slung across hers...

The Talib kept...

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The Breadwinner

Imagine living in a country in which women and girls are not allowed to leave the house without a man. Imagine having to wear clothes that cover every part of your body, including your face, whenever you go out. In this powerful and realistic tale, 11-year-old Parvana lives with her family in...

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Those Winter Sundays

Poem by Robert Hayden

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Gregory Peck stars as courageous Southern lawyer Atticus Finch - the Academy Award®-winning performance hailed by the American Film Institute as the Greatest Movie Hero of All Time. based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about innocence, strength and conviction and nominated for 8...

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the deep south defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl.

One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize,...

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