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Freedom's Main Line

One of the earliest assaults on segregated transit in the South occurred in Louisville, Ky., in 1870-71. There, the city’s black community organized a successful protest that relied on nonviolent direct action, a tactic that would give shape to the modern civil rights movement nearly a century later.
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Maria Fleming
Grade Level
9-12
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Class Rights & Activism
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Civics
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Identity Diversity Justice Action
December 6, 2017
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The Transformation of Hate

“Dad, what is the Clue Clux Clan,” asked my 10-year-old son Bakary as we sat under a shade tree on Saturday in Montgomery, Ala. We were waiting to register for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s 40th anniversary celebration.“Well, it’s the Ku Klux Klan,” I told him. “Do you remember the old song that goes, “Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight?" Well, the KKK thinks only white people are precious and they try to hurt people who think differently.” “Oh, I’m glad it’s not the ‘Clue Clux Clan’ because they don’t have a clue,” he said.
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Bullying & Bias
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Delvin Davis

Delvin Davis (he/him) is a senior policy analyst with the Southern Poverty Law Center. While at SPLC, he has conducted research to promote progressive public policy in the area of criminal legal reform. His most recent work includes the five-part series Only Young Once, which details the dynamics of youth incarceration in the Deep South. Delvin earned both his B.A. in Public Policy Analysis and M.A. in Public Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Why Our Students Need ‘Equity Literacy’

Several stacks of fake dollar bills enclosed in a Plexiglas case sit at the center of an exhibit entitled “RACE: Are We So Different?” at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. One stack towers over the others. This teetering pile of bills represents the average net worth of “white” people’s assets in relation to those of other racialized groups based upon data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau from 1997 to 2000. While the “Asian” stack is almost as high, the “black” stack can hardly be called a stack at all; the “Latino” stack is almost as low.
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