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No School Like Freedom School
Based on the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools, modern-day programs educate and empower students.
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What We're Reading
Teaching Tolerance staff review the latest in culturally aware literature and resources, offering the best picks for professional development and teachers of all grades.
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Flipping the Script on Bias and Bullies
Social justice theater can teach your students to take the story into their own hands.
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Reconstruction
These images show how different people reacted to the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
January 28, 2020
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Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution
Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution, the first clause of which restrains congressional powers with respect to the trade in enslaved persons.
December 13, 2017
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South Carolina Topsey in a Fix
In his cartoon, Thomas W. Strong turns southern arguments in favor of slavery against the South. He creates an anti-secessionist message by depicting South Carolina as an enslaved woman (likely a reference to Topsey from Uncle Tom’s Cabin) incapable of making her own decisions.
December 15, 2017
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Love Your Magic Conference
Read about how one teacher used a Learning for Justice grant to help fund a daylong conference empowering girls of color in Boston.
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Passages in the Life of a Slave Woman
In this short story, from the 1853 abolitionist collection Autographs for Freedom, Parker shares a heartbreaking tale that shows some of the damage enslavement inflicts on families.
December 15, 2017
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Walkout in Crystal City
A former teacher from Crystal City, Texas, remembers the student walkout that helped launch the Latino civil rights movement 40 years ago.