Primary Source Learning: Protest & Reform Primary Source Set

Have students use the primary sources in this set to tell a story about protest and reform in the United States. (For background information, check the bibliographic records for dates then review the relevant sections of the American Memory timeline.) Related primary source collections highlighted on the Primary Source Nexus are linked to below. The story may be in digital or print form. It could be nonfiction, fiction, poetry, or even a song. Click on each thumbnail image below to access the full size primary source. You may also use this primary set for a found poetry activity.

Protest against child labor in a labor parade	Demonstrators opposed to the ERA in front of the White House	Pittsburgh 1919 strikers demonstrating in car
Women’s lib march from Farrugut Sq to Layfette Pk	Congress of Racial Equality march for Negro youngsters killed in Birmingham bombings	Parade of Unemployed
Ku Klux Klan members supporting Barry Goldwater’s campaign for the presidential nomination	Little Rock, 1959. Rally at state capitol	Children appealing to the President for the release of political prisoners
Civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama	Margaret Hinchey, head of the Laundry Workers Union of New York	Iran Hostage Crisis student demonstration
Picket line at the King Farm strike	A. Philip Randolph to NAACP Secretary Walter White: mass march	Susan B. Anthony: women ministers & suffragist sculpture
Veterans march to Washington	Minutes: First Annual Meeting of the American Moral Reform Society	Nixon sends GIs into Cambodia
Gay rights demonstration at the Democratic National Convention, New York City	Protest signs against Republican policies, Republican National Convention	The Women’s March to advocate legislation and policies regarding human rights and other issues