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Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006

The text is the 2006 reauthorization and amendment act of the Voting Rights Act.

109th United States Congress

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

July 18, 2022

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Black Lives Matter Still Matters

These resources can help you teach about the Black Lives Matters movement, its origins and why your students need to understand its relevance to their lives—regardless of their race.

Why Teaching Black Lives Matter Matters | Part I
Bringing Black Lives Matter Into the Classroom | Part II
A District Profile | Black Lives Matter at School

August 20, 2018

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November 13, 2020

The Burden of Critical Active Conscience

African-American student raising their hand in class, seen from behind.

This educator calls on all educators to commit to making schools—at all levels—critical active conscience spaces that center people long denied space, voice and freedom.

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Part of a Community Online

This lesson focuses on helping young children learn to participate in different kinds of digital communities. Students will solidify and work on what they know about being part of any community.

Grade Level

K-2

Subject

Digital Literacy

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

September 25, 2017

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An Aesthetic of Blackness: Strange and Oppositional

This text by bell hooks shares her experiences involving her upbringing, space, culture, family and more in order to reflect about her identity, community and aesthetics of Blackness. hooks also emphasizes freeing the creative spirit, supporting artistic expression and acknowledging social hierarchies, the African diaspora and cultural production.

bell hooks

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Class Immigration Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

Social Studies

History

July 18, 2022

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Issue 16, Fall 1999

Searching for Patterns

A conversation with Carlos Cortés.

article

May 1, 2017

Let the Freedom Rides Roll Through Your Class

When many students think of buses and desegregation, their minds instantly go to Rosa Parks and the 1954 Montgomery Bus Boycott. But the larger civil rights fight over transportation took place seven years later with the Freedom Rides.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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July 8, 2014

Season of Terror

Before Freedom Summer began, Charles Moore and Henry Dee were the first victims of the project's white-supremacist backlash.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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March 19, 2015

Confronting Students’ Islamophobia

What do you do when anti-bias teaching strategies are derailed by real, in-the-moment fears? See how one educator responded to Islamophobia in her classroom.

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Religion Bullying & Bias

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December 2, 2015

Five Steps for Starting a Human Rights Club

A leading scholar on human rights education shares some try-tomorrow strategies for starting a human rights club at your high school. Pocket these ideas for Human Rights Day on December 10—and beyond.

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Rights & Activism

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