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Juneteenth Observances Promote ‘Absolute Equality’
At the birthplace of Juneteenth, residents urge us to engage with honest history to build a just society.
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Summer Violence and Educator Silence
One principal questions the value of educator conferences that focus on “student voice” without recognizing the social contexts in which voices struggle to be heard.
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A Second Revolution
This piece is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article "Getting the Civil War Right." Some historians have called the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War the "second American Revolution" and the 13th
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The Straight Story
The editor of Teaching Tolerance reflects on governmental executions.
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The Skin I'm In (Chapter 3)
Maleeka gets made fun of at school about her clothes, her grades, even the color of her skin. In this chapter, she talks about getting teased on a school trip and how even her friend Char was ashamed to be seen with her because of her clothes.
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Connecting Freedom Summer of 1964 to Today
Young Black organizers who confront oppressive systems have always been met with violence—educators can look at the uprisings of Freedom Summer in 1964 and those in Minneapolis in 2020 for evidence. Despite the pushback they face, Black activists’ work leads to changes in laws and culture. Use these resources to teach about Freedom Summer and highlight how Black people have asserted their agency in efforts to effect policy change in the United States.
- Freedom Wasn’t Free in ’64—and It Isn’t Free Now
- Season of Terror
- Lessons of 1964: The Movement Continues
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The Bravery of Linda Brown
As we remember Linda Brown Thompson, we must also consider the reality of the world she lived in when, at the age of 9, she became the face of school desegregation.
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What’s Next For Girls Who Want To Be Astronauts?
As the final Space Shuttle mission touched down last month, ending NASA’s 30-year space shuttle program, I wondered what would come next for women in aerospace. Without a clear, defined mission from NASA, I questioned where that leaves girls and young women who dream of becoming astronauts.
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A Student's View on the Silence Over Bullying
Growing up, no one told me that people shouldn’t be gay. My parents didn’t tell me I shouldn’t talk to kids whose parents were lesbian. My neighbors didn’t rant against the horrors of gay rights. Instead, all the people in my life encouraged me to live openly, to take people’s personalities and see the beauty in them, to smile at the adorable young couple clutching each other’s hands, no matter their gender. Love was love. I lived in a world blissfully ignorant about the cruelties of the “real world.”