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The Child's Defender

In this interview, Marian Wright Edelman expresses the importance of each American sending children “signals of fairness and tolerance” and helping to give them “a life that transcends boundaries of race, class, gender and other differences.”

Marian Wright Edelman and Sara Bullard

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Race & Ethnicity Class Rights & Activism

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Civics

Economics

June 20, 2016

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Teaching Tolerance Interview With John Lewis

In the graphic novel March, Congressman John Lewis documents his experiences as a young civil rights activist. Hear him describe his first arrest employing a nonviolent resistance strategy, as captured in the book.

John Lewis

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Race & Ethnicity Class Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

June 20, 2016

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Witch Hunting

In this essay, the author draws parallels between the "witch hunts" experienced in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts and in 1950 in the U.S. government at U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy's urgings.

Learning for Justice Staff

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Religion Gender & Sexual Identity

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Civics

History

June 20, 2016

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Race Riots

In this essay, the author gives a short history of race riots, showing how they were originally organized by whites in an effort to show dominance over African Americans, particularly in the South.

Learning for Justice Staff

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Race & Ethnicity

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Civics

History

Geography

June 20, 2016

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Nativism and the Know-Nothings

In this essay, the author describes the Nativism movement, capturing the ways in which it dips and surges based on immigration cycles.

Learning for Justice Staff

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Religion Immigration

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Civics

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Economics

Geography

June 20, 2016

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A Backlash Against Arab Americans

In this essay, the author details how tension built and violence erupted—specifically against Muslim Americans—in the days following the September 11th attacks.

Learning for Justice Staff

Grade Level

9-12

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Race & Ethnicity Religion

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History

June 20, 2016

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June 20, 2016

Media Worth Binging On: Two Pro-social Examples

Many students are constantly tied to their phones. As educators, we can tap into that interest—and students’ curiosity and desire for entertainment—to show them gateways to a wider worldview.

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June 17, 2016

One Year Later: Reflections on Charleston

The massacre at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, deeply saddened us—but also galvanized us. On the anniversary of the attack, six TT staffers remember.

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Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

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June 17, 2016

Happy Juneteenth!

Statues depicting emancipated enslaved people celebrating and looking towards the sky.

The emancipation story remains largely incomplete, over 150 years later.

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Rights & Activism

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June 16, 2016

Imagining Alternative Futures Through Futurist Pedagogy

As educators, we must push past the call to “prepare students for the future.” This approach is insufficient and ultimately hazardous.

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Rights & Activism

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