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Founding Documents

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Everything we believe about America–the inequities and victories of our past and the promise of our future–is based on the beliefs and laws expressed in our founding documents. Any student of American history needs to be acquainted with them. So for reference we provide them here.

The Declaration of Independence

The Preamble to the Constitution

The Constitution of the United States

The Bill of Rights

Amendments 11 – 27

eHandout for NTC “Teaching in the Visual Realm”

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Click here for a pdf of  “Always There: Black Women in the Suffrage Movement,” Kathleen Thompson’s speech for the Chicago Women’s History Council and Chicago Public Library

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