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Meet Hiram Rhodes Revels

This is the story of Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first black senator in the United States.
February 19, 2020
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Shoulders
In this poem, the speaker sees a man carrying his son across the street and is struck by the tenderness the man displays for the child. The speaker realizes that humanity must cloak itself in this same caring nature.
July 2, 2014
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Telling the Story of Privilege
The new issue of Teaching Tolerance is packed with advice for teaching this tough subject.
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Helping Students Build a World Without Hate
An Anti-Defamation League video inspires this teacher to help his students imagine—and build—a world in which everyone thrives.
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Slave Houses, Louisiana (1853)
The drawing is a visual description that seeks to portray enslaved people as enjoying a relatively stable home life with people playing music, dancing and courting.
December 14, 2017
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Reframing the Movement
Episode 1, Season 3 Teaching the civil rights movement accurately and effectively requires deconstructing the myths and misconceptions around it. Most people are familiar with a very specific version of the movement that
August 5, 2020
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Uplift Honest History and the Power of Place
The latest issue of Learning for Justice magazine focuses on the South in the fight for democracy and justice. That entails acknowledging those at the center of an unjust system, whose very survival served as a form of resistance. In these new stories, Amber N. Mitchell details the ways in which the Whitney Plantation experiential learning tour sheds light on the lives of the people whose enslavement generated great wealth for their captors, and Lolita Bolden celebrates her Southern roots in both prose and poetry.
- Survival, Resistance and Resilience
- Where I’m From
- Centering Diverse Parents in the CRT Debate
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