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Fun and Fitness in a Library Parking Lot

Library Parking Lot
Line dance leader Kit Cheung teaches her class of Chinese-American women in an unlikely place: the parking lot of a local library. No other public location offers both the outdoor space and sun cover the group requires for their twist on the traditional Chinese exercise of tai chi. The relationship that forms between the initially reluctant library and Kit’s dance group has created some unexpected opportunities.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Grade Level
3-5
Topic
Religion Ability Class Immigration
Subject
Social Studies
Social Justice Domain
Identity Diversity Justice Action
June 26, 2019
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Si Se Puede

“In response to legislation that would have criminalized immigrants, thousands of high school students from across the country walked out of their classrooms and into history.”
by
Learning for Justice Staff
Grade Level
6-8 9-12
Topic
Class
Subject
Civics
History
Social Justice Domain
Identity Diversity Justice Action
August 9, 2017
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Before Rosa Parks: Susie King Taylor

The title “Before Rosa Parks” loosely links a number of lessons that address African-American women who were active in the fight for civil and human rights before the 1950s. This lesson highlights Susie King Taylor, the only black woman who wrote a narrative about her experiences working with soldiers during the Civil War.
Grade Level
6-8 9-12
Topic
Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism
Subject
Reading & Language Arts
Social Studies
History
Social Justice Domain
Justice
July 6, 2009
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Amanda Morris

Dr. Amanda Morris is an Associate Professor of writing and rhetoric at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarship and much of her public writing and speaking engagements focus on contemporary Indigenous rhetorics. Her academic writing can be found in Rhetoric Review, Epiphany, WSQ, Journal of American Culture, Enthymema, South Atlantic Review, and the books Stand Up Comedy and Rhetoric (Routledge, 2016) and Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric: Communicating Self-Determination (Peter Lang, 2018).
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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