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Flipping the Script on Bias and Bullies
Social justice theater can teach your students to take the story into their own hands.
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Informational
Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution
Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution, the first clause of which restrains congressional powers with respect to the trade in enslaved persons.
December 13, 2017
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South Carolina Topsey in a Fix
In his cartoon, Thomas W. Strong turns southern arguments in favor of slavery against the South. He creates an anti-secessionist message by depicting South Carolina as an enslaved woman (likely a reference to Topsey from Uncle Tom’s Cabin) incapable of making her own decisions.
December 15, 2017
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Literature
Passages in the Life of a Slave Woman
In this short story, from the 1853 abolitionist collection Autographs for Freedom, Parker shares a heartbreaking tale that shows some of the damage enslavement inflicts on families.
December 15, 2017
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Love Your Magic Conference
Read about how one teacher used a Learning for Justice grant to help fund a daylong conference empowering girls of color in Boston.
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U.S. Constitution: Articles I, II, IV, V
These sections illustrate the ways in which the U.S. Constitution provided indirect protection of slavery.
January 5, 2018
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Letter to Reverend Samson Occum (1774)
Wheatley’s letter explains her reasoning for emancipation using the rhetoric of the American Revolution and Biblical references.
January 5, 2018
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Walkout in Crystal City
A former teacher from Crystal City, Texas, remembers the student walkout that helped launch the Latino civil rights movement 40 years ago.
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Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline
School policies that include harsh punishments, automatic out-of-class time and police involvement for discipline contribute to pushing young people out of classrooms and into the criminal legal system. These punitive practices disproportionately affect Black and other children of color, students with disabilities, young people experiencing poverty and children from communities that have been historically marginalized. Urgent change is needed to end school pushout and dismantle this school-to-prison pipeline.
- What Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and How Do We Dismantle It?
- Only Young Once: Dismantling Georgia’s Punitive Youth Incarceration System
- The Heart of Facilitation in Restorative Justice
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Religious Holidays
If you want to include religious holidays as part of classroom inquiry, it is important to plan for them. Keep the following guidelines in mind.
July 16, 2009