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Proposed Bill: An Ethnic Studies Ban "on Steroids"
Exploring our differences does not divide us; it highlights our identities and reveals our shared humanity.
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Sources | Ten Myths About Immigration
A list of sources that help to dispel common immigration myths.
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For White Allies in Search of a Solution to American Racism / When Folks of Color Are Exhausted
Racism, white privilege and white supremacy are challenges that people of color neither created nor should be expected to resolve. This scholar encourages white allies to step up.
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Insurrection in Currituck
The newspaper article relays the secondhand story of enslaved people fleeing from a plantation and joining up with Irish laborers in pursuit of “their freedom.” The escaping party was found, and the Irish “abolitionists” were denounced.
December 15, 2017
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Teaching the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act (CRA) of 1964, the conditions that led to it and its legacy are the subjects of a powerful four-part webinar series co-facilitated by Teaching Tolerance and the Library of Congress.
February 6, 2015
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Jim Crow as a Form of Racialized Social Control
How did Jim Crow function as a mechanism of racialized social control? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.
October 13, 2014
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Students Weigh in on the Golden Globes, #MeToo and #TimesUp
After watching highlights from the Golden Globes, this high school class engaged in some deep discussions about advocacy.
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Propaganda
These propaganda images show enslaved people in happy, safe working conditions.
January 28, 2020
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Punishment and Brutality
Enslavers used harsh and punishments to force enslaved people obey them. These images show these punishments. This text contains sensitive images that may not be suitable for all students.
January 28, 2020
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Punishment for Escape
These images show some of the brutal ways enslavers punished enslaved people who tried to escape.
January 28, 2020