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Prison Writings

Peltier
When Leonard Peltier thinks of the massacre at Wounded Knee, he hears the screams of women and children. Although the vehicle for killing has changed, Peltier explains how American Indians are still being killed off in the modern day.
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Leonard Peltier
Grade Level
9-12
Topic
Religion Class Rights & Activism
Subject
Civics
History
Economics
Geography
Social Justice Domain
Identity Justice Action
July 2, 2014
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Gawking, Gaping, Staring

In this personal narrative, Clare explores multiple facets of the self and questions why gender is still discussed as a binary. He acknowledges the tortured lives that many have lived as a result of their gender ambiguity and declares that all those who "gawk," "gape," and "stare" at those who are different never get it right.
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Eli Clare
Grade Level
9-12
Topic
Ability Gender & Sexual Identity
Social Justice Domain
Identity Diversity Justice
July 14, 2014
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Mary Church Terrell

In this lesson of the series, “Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice,” students will read and analyze text from “The Progress of Colored Women,” a speech made by Mary Church Terrell in 1898. Terrell was the first president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), an organization that was formed in 1896 from the merger of several smaller women’s clubs, and was active during the period of Jim Crow segregation in the South.
Grade Level
6-8 9-12
Topic
Gender & Sexual Identity
Subject
Reading & Language Arts
Social Studies
History
Social Justice Domain
Justice Action
May 11, 2012
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Judgement of the Supreme Court of the United States in Plessy v. Ferguson

In the matter of Plessy v. Ferguson, the United States Supreme Court upheld practices that perpetuated Jim Crow segregation, declaring that “separate but equal” accommodations were legal. Nearly 60 years later, the Court overturned the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
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Mr. Justice Brown and Mr. Justice Harlan
Grade Level
9-12
Topic
Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism
Subject
Civics
History
Social Justice Domain
Justice Action
March 3, 2016