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Equality Before the Law: An Open Educational Resource
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Description
This Open Educational Resource (OER) features original documents and teaching materials from unpublished and unfamiliar legal cases, stories, and histories that have legacies in the U.S. today. Our aim is to help teachers, students, researchers, communities, and descendants piece together how law shaped U.S. history and the course of race, equality, freedom, and unfreedom from the colonial period to the present. Freely available for teaching and learning, the OER foregrounds the actions of ordinary Americans in the law.
Publication Date
2026
Keywords
OER, law, civil rights, history, primary sources
Disciplines
Civil Rights and Discrimination | Legal | United States History
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Comments
A project of the U.S. Law and Race Initiative and the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and created with funding from the Mellon Foundation.
OER credits at https://teachinglegalhistory.unl.edu/s/oer/page/credits