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Letter from Randa Jo Downs to the Voices of Civil Rights Project

This letter from Randa Jo Downs to the Voices of Civil Rights Project describes her father’s work investigating Title VI civil rights complaints in hospitals.

Randa Jo Downs

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

June 22, 2022

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Literature

A Letter to My Nephew

In this letter, James Baldwin expresses his love for his nephew and describes the hardships of life as a Black man in the United States.

James Baldwin

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

June 22, 2022

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The Ground on Which I Stand

Playwright August Wilson delivered this speech on June 26, 1996, at the 11th biennial Theatre Communications Group national conference at Princeton University.

August Wilson

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

June 22, 2022

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The Crusader Monthly Newsletter, Volume 6, No. 2, October Special Edition 1964

In this October 1964 special edition of Robert F. Williams’ Crusader newsletter, Williams provides a platform for Chinese leaders to call for an end to the discrimination of Black people in the United States.

Robert F. Williams, Chairman Liu Shao-Chi and Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

June 22, 2022

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The Crusader Monthly Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 1, June-July 1962

The text is an issue of a monthly newsletter written by militant activist Robert F. Williams while exiled in Cuba.

Robert F. Williams

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

June 22, 2022

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Issue 37, Spring 2010

Uncovering the Movement

Let students ‘do’ history for themselves.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Issue 37, Spring 2010

Whose Student Is She?

Illustration of hands raised with various questions

No Child Left Behind is plunging many English language learners into the educational mainstream — and sometimes getting them in over their heads.

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Issue 28, Fall 2005

‘Here To Tell My Story’

In developing the One Survivor Remembers kit, Teaching Tolerance's Curriculum Specialist/Writer Jeff Sapp spoke extensively with Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein.

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Religion Bullying & Bias

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The War in Vietnam

After a classmate died in Vietnam, a group of Black community members wrote and distributed this leaflet encouraging “Negro boys” to avoid the draft.

Black Community Members

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

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Social Studies

History

July 18, 2022

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The Fiery Cross

A Ku Klux Klan newspaper from February 1923 published in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Ernest W. Reicharad, ed.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Religion

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Social Studies

History

July 18, 2022

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