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Recovering and Teaching Local History
Local history has a profound effect on our communities. It’s up to educators to learn and teach students about the hard history in their own backyards.
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What We’re Reading This Week: February 7, 2020
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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A Message From Our Director
TT Director Maureen Costello is thinking a lot about the power of social media; a significant number of educators are too.
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“We Are Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams”
As part of our series highlighting educator voices, we spoke to five Black teachers who teach in predominately Black or all-Black settings to ask how they approach the topic of slavery.
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Slavery as a Form of Racialized Social Control
How did racial hierarchy adapt and persist after Emancipation? 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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Once Upon a Time in America
Don’t sugarcoat history in teaching the civil rights movement. Students deserve the full truth about both the racial bias that caused it and our hesitant steps toward freedom.
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What We’re Reading This Week: January 25, 2019
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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What We’re Reading This Week: September 28, 2018
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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What We’re Reading This Week: March 15, 2019
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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About Learning for Justice
Learning for Justice seeks to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center: to be a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy
June 28, 2017