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This is a sermon by Benjamin Morgan Palmer that argues for the preservation of slavery. It gives students a close look at the religious arguments made for the institution of slavery.

This spiritual illustrates the relationship between Christian allusions and imagery with the desire for freedom from enslavement.

This spiritual illustrates how enslaved people saw the Civil War through the lens of Christian imagery.

Regarded as one of the most important speeches in American history, it was delivered by Booker T. Washington as a plea for racial cooperation in the South during a time of deep racial prejudice.

Bayard Rustin was an African American leader who worked for the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) in the 1940s and 1950s for equal rights for all Americans using nonviolence. In this story, he writes about the struggle for an African American man to order a simple hamburger at a restaurant in the Midwest.

In this poem, the speaker recounts his or her shifting view of the white man stoically standing between Tommie Smith and John Carlos during their medal ceremony in Mexico City for the 1968 Olympics.