Andrew Zetts is a social studies teacher at Jenkintown Middle/High School in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, and a graduate student at Villanova University. In this podcast he uses his experiences studying at the National Archives to discuss ways to use primary sources in the social studies classroom. His topic: Debating the Civil Rights Act of 1875. This podcast is an audio extra to his October 2017 article in Social Education, journal of the National Council for Social Studies. We thank his co-authors Kimberlee Ried and Andrea (Ang) Reidell of the National Archives in Kansas City and Philadelphia respectively.

[1] Sumner Civil Rights Bill; 12/1/1873; Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Record Group 233. Online Version, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1986640. And, Memorial of the Colored People of Georgia in Favor of the Sumner Civil Rights Bill; 1/26/1874; Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Record Group 233. Online Version, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1991057.

[2] Doringo, Ric. “We Need the Lessons of Reconstruction.” Teaching Tolerance. June 8, 2017. http://www.tolerance.org/blog/we-need-lessons-reconstruction.

[3] Rosen, Hannah. “Teaching Race and Reconstruction.” Journal of the Civil War Era 7, no. 1 (2017): 67-95. Accessed July 6, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2017.0013.

[4] Use the following URL to access the DocsTeach website: https://www.docsteach.org/.

[5] United States Congress. “An Act to Protect All Citizens in their Civil and Legal Rights.” Statutes at Large. 43rd Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 18, Part 3. 1 March 1875. From Library of Congress, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=022/llsl022.db&recNum=364. Pages 335-337 of this document provides the entire text for the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

[6] “Black-American Representatives and Senators by Congress, 1870-Present.” History, Art & Archives: United States House of Representatives. Accessed July 26, 2017.http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/ BAIC/Historical-Data/Black-American-Representatives-and-Senators-by-Congress/

[7] Pindell, James. “Welcome to America’s golden age of political activism.” Boston Globe, January 24, 2017. https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/01/24/groundgame/ oB0e1onE4q6AaztzShw0PM/story.html.