Primary Source Packet: Setting the Stage for Civil Rights

Sources included:

• "The Birth of a Nation." Newspaper article.
• St. Paul Red Cross Canteen. Photograph.
• Three men lynched in Duluth. Photograph.
• "The Duluth Disgrace." Newspaper article.
• "The Duluth Tragedy." Newspaper article.
• Baseball at Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House. Photograph.
• Girl Scout Troop. Photograph.
• Jack Oliver and dining car crew. Photograph.
• Porter serving lunch. Photograph.
• African American porter's lunchbox. Object.
• Ice Palace, St. Paul. Postcard.
• First Mantoux test in Negro Health Week. Photograph.
• United States Census, Minneapolis (two pages).
• Restrictive housing convenant.
• Oral history, Ethel Ray Nance.
• Oral history, Nellie Stone Johnson.

Academic standards alignment

The Setting the Stage for Civil Rights Primary Source Packet is designed to engage your students and enrich their ability to read and analyze primary sources. Incorporating these sources, or adapting the questions and activities for other sources, into your teaching will help meet your curricular objectives and academic standards, whether they are content or skills related.

We have aligned this packet with state and national standards and benchmarks for grades 6–12. The links below outline the standards alignment for this packet.

• Setting the Stage Common Core ELA Standards (PDF)
• Setting the Stage Minnesota Social Studies Standards (PDF)
• Setting the Stage Minnesota ELA Standards (PDF)
• Setting the Stage NCSS C3 (College Career Civic Life) Standards (PDF)

National standards

• National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies
• Common Core
• College, Career, and Civic Life Framework

Minnesota standards

• Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards in Social Studies
• Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards in English Language Arts