Rights of Citizenship: Citizenship, Part 4

Center for Civic Education: Rights of Citizenship: Citizenship, Part 4 

What types of rights are associated with citizenship? Professor Henry L. Chambers Jr. of the University of Richmond School of Law explains some useful ways to think about citizenship, including how the rights of citizens have changed over the years.

Civil Discourse: An American Legacy is funded under the 2022 Leonore Annenberg Civic Mission of the Nation Initiative,  sponsored by the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics. LAIC is a project of the Annenberg  Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

60-Second Civics, Episode 5345, April 3, 2025 (a rebroadcast of Episode 4985, September 28, 2023)

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The 14th Amendment Transforms Citizenship: Citizenship, Part 3

Center for Civic Education: The 14th Amendment Transforms Citizenship: Citizenship, Part 3

How did the 14th Amendment transform citizenship in America? Professor Henry L. Chambers Jr. of the University of Richmond School of Law explains the impact of the 14th Amendment on citizenship and its particular effect on formerly enslaved Americans who were born in the United States.

Civil Discourse: An American Legacy is funded under the 2022 Leonore Annenberg Civic Mission of the Nation Initiative,  sponsored by the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics. LAIC is a project of the Annenberg  Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

60-Second Civics: Episode 4984, September 27, 2023

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Citizenship Before the Civil War: Citizenship, Part 2

Center for Civic Education: Citizenship Before the Civil War: Citizenship, Part 2

What was citizenship in America before the Civil War? Professor Henry L. Chambers Jr. of the University of Richmond School of Law explains the uncertain status of citizenship before the Civil War, particularly for Black Americans.

Civil Discourse: An American Legacy is funded under the 2022 Leonore Annenberg Civic Mission of the Nation Initiative,  sponsored by the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics. LAIC is a project of the Annenberg  Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

60-Second Civics, Episode 5343, April 1, 2025 (a rebroadcast of Episode 4983, September 26, 2023)

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Citizenship at the Founding: Citizenship, Part 1

 

Center for Civic Education: Citizenship at the Founding: Citizenship, Part 1

What was citizenship at the founding of our country? Professor Henry L. Chambers Jr. of the University of Richmond School of Law explains how citizenship was initially decided by each individual state, and how this presented a challenge as the United States gained independence and evolved into a more mature republic.

Civil Discourse: An American Legacy is funded under the 2022 Leonore Annenberg Civic Mission of the Nation Initiative,  sponsored by the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics. LAIC is a project of the Annenberg  Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

60-Second Civics, Episode 5342, March 31, 2025 (a rebroadcast of Episode 4982, September 25, 2023)

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(AI summary)  At the beginning of the United States, citizenship was not very clear. Each of the 13 states had its own rules for who was a citizen. When the states joined together, U.S. citizenship was a mix of all these state citizenships. The Constitution showed that citizenship was important, but it did not fully explain what it meant. For example, only people born in the U.S. or citizens at that time could become president.

2024-2025 MAE Citizenship Class 24

NY Historical Society: World War II // The Citizenship Project [E06]

This is the eighth class of our new semester.  

• Future Citizenship: WWI, WWII, 20th Century Wars 39 -46; Unit 3:2 pg 150-151
• 08 Practice Citizenship Interview based on the USCIS Form N-400 (2024)
• N-400 Quiz 6
• Preparing for the Oath: 1900s

Learn more:

• US Citizenship Resources for Women's History Month post  

Celebrating America during National Poetry Month

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TED-ed: "New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus

An animated interpretation of Emma Lazarus' poem "New Colossus"

For an analysis of this poem, watch this video: http://bit.ly/TEDEdColossusAnalysis

This animation is part of our series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest feelings. Check out the full series here: http://bit.ly/TEDEdTheresAPoemForThat

More Resources

American English at State: An American Poetry Project for Low Intermediate ESL Adults

American English at State: Poetry Resources

American Writers Museum: Honoring Immigrant and Refugee Experiences

Arapahoe Libraries: Immigrant Poets and the Poetry of Immigration 

Angel Island Immigration Station: Poems and Inscriptions

Facing History: Angel Island Poetry

Gilder Lehrman Institute: "America the Beautiful," 1893

LitHub: Read every presidential inauguration poem ever performed (there are fewer than you think).

LOC: U.S. Poet Laureate | Poet Laureate Projects | Living Nations, Living Words

NPS: Poetry in Parks 2024

PBS/KQED: Poetry in America

Poetry Foundation: Poems on Immigration

Poets.org: Thirty Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month in the Classroom

Poets.org: Poems about Migration

Poets.org: Poems about Politics and Patriotism

Citizenship Resources for Cesar Chavez Day

On the last Monday of March, schools in California, Texas, and Colorado observe Cesar Chavez Day.

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uscitizenpod: Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta started the United Farm Workers union, because farm workers did not have

"the legal right to organize and to vote for collective bargaining. They didn't have the right to have clean drinking water, access to portable toilets, lunch breaks, or short rest breaks during workdays. And they were not entitled to the minimum wage or unemployment insurance."

• Cesar Chavez Day resources from California Department of Education
• EL Civics Cesar Chavez Day 
• ESL Library Cesar Chavez
• ListenAndReadAlong: Biography - CC - Cesar Chavez - Hero of the Migrant Farm Workers Labor Union
• NPS: Cesar E. Chavez National Monument
• UFW: The Story of Cesar Chavez
• UFW: Cesar Chavez: Embrace the Legacy
• VOANews: Cesar Chavez Day in California - Reflecting on Immigration (2018)

USCIS 100:51. What are two rights of everyone living in the United States?

• freedom of expression
• freedom of speech
• freedom of assembly
• freedom to petition the government
• freedom of worship
• the right to bear arms

Listen:

• Cesar Chavez and Civil Rights mp3

Family Fun:

• education.com: Cesar Chavez Coloring Page (fixed)
• education.com: Dolores Huerta Coloring Page

NEW (Jan 2019) New Readers Press: Field of Vision - Novel 
Scenes Reader, Low-Intermediate Level by Ana Gianola

Rafael is a farmworker foreman who takes pride in his work. After putting off eye surgery, an emergency in the field changes everything. Teacher Guide

Central Valley High School welcoming nearly 50 new U.S. citizens in naturalization ceremony

KREM: Central Valley High School welcoming nearly 50 new U.S. citizens in naturalization ceremony