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Teach This: Native American Appropriation at the Super Bowl
This weekend’s Super Bowl offers an opportunity to talk with students about appropriation and identity.
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How Are You Teaching Black History?
We hope you’ll join us—this February and year-round—in teaching Black history beyond trauma and helping students recognize the brilliance, strength and love this history represents. Here’s why that’s so important.
- Black History Month: Teaching the Complete History
- Ending Curriculum Violence
- Black History Month Teaching: Miseducation or Empowerment?
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Literacy as Resistance
This image group features portraits of Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano, who all learned to read and write while they were enslaved. Each used their gifts to help end slavery.
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Enslaved People at the Capitol
This image shows a group of enslaved men and children in front of the U.S. Capitol after much of it burned down in 1814.
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Chains
These images show how enslavers used chains as a way to take freedom away from enslaved people. This text contains sensitive images that may not be suitable for all students.
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Music and Customs
These images show enslaved people singing as part of their work and recreational lives.
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Resistance Through Escape
These images show enslaved people escaping their enslavers. This text contains sensitive images that may not be suitable for all students.
January 28, 2020
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Punishment for Escape
These images show some of the brutal ways enslavers punished enslaved people who tried to escape.
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Reconstruction
These images show how different people reacted to the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
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Enslaved People in the War
These images show some of the many African Americans who fought or worked for the Union Army in the Civil War.
January 28, 2020