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July 16, 2020

Confronting the Weaponization of Whiteness in Classrooms

A group of educators speaking to each other.

As viral racist incidents quickly disappear from public discourse, we challenge white teachers to keep those moments top of mind and reflect on their own biased behaviors in classrooms.

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Issue 16, Fall 1999

Searching for Patterns

A conversation with Carlos Cortés.

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Issue 53, Summer 2016

‘Browder v. Gayle’

The most important civil rights case you’ve never heard of.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Engaging School and District Administrators

When school and district leaders explicitly express support for their teachers and for honest histories, educators feel more encouraged to keep doing this important work.

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Slavery Rights & Activism

November 21, 2023

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Issue 9, Spring 1996

Just Rewards

Positive discipline can teach students self-respect and empathy.

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Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

What is the “new Jim Crow”? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

October 13, 2014

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Informational

James Reeb

This essay details James Reeb’s calling to become a minister and—eventually—to join the march in Selma. Although he was tragically murdered following the march, his death had a profound impact on the civil rights movement.

Learning for Justice Staff

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Religion Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Geography

March 10, 2016

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Informational

On Whose Shoulders I Stand

Deborah Walker recalls that, growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, fear and rage lived side by side. She credits her lifelong fight for equity to her guardian angels.

Deborah J. Walker

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Geography

November 18, 2014

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Identifying and Responding to Bias Incidents

A bias incident is conduct, speech or expression motivated, in whole or in part, by bias or prejudice.

Professional Development Topic

School Climate

Topic

Bullying & Bias

July 16, 2009

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October 3, 2019

Recovering and Teaching Local History

Black students in Mansfield, TX during integration crisis, standing in front of a school bus

Local history has a profound effect on our communities. It’s up to educators to learn and teach students about the hard history in their own backyards.

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Rights & Activism

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