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New Orleans’ Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s Address on the Removal of Four Confederate Statues

This is the text of New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s speech given when the final Confederate monument in the city was taken down.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

December 5, 2017

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June 4, 2018

SPLC’s ‘Whose Heritage?’ Report: A Teaching Opportunity

Across the country, schools, monuments and statues pay homage to the Confederacy. A new report can help teach the history behind these public fixtures—and how they spread throughout the South and beyond.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Issue 44, Summer 2013

A Message From Our Director

TT director Maureen Costello ushers in the digital age with our first online issue.

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Issue 58, Spring 2018

A Message From Our Director

Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello encourages educators to confront the difficult truths of American history.

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March 20, 2019

Existence Is Resistance: Supporting Student-led Social Change

Students marching together holding a Black Lives Matter sign

As we encourage students to take action against injustice, what are we doing to support them in this work? An educator offers five practical lessons she’s learned in doing just that.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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December 7, 2018

What We’re Reading This Week: December 7, 2018

A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.

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December 14, 2018

What We’re Reading This Week: December 14, 2018

A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.

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October 4, 2019

Sacred Spaces and the Work of Social Justice Educators

Photograph of the Civil Rights Memorial wall and fountain. The words "...until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. —Martin Luther King Jr." appear plainly on the wall.

The Civil Rights Memorial sits near TT's office. As we celebrate the birthday of its designer, Maya Lin, a TT staffer reflects on this space and its connection to the work educators do every day.

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Rights & Activism

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On Emancipation Day in D.C., Two Memorials Tell Very Different Stories

Two memorials have been built in commemoration of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation-one in 1896 and 1998. And while they both pay tribute to the same event, they depict the African Americans within them in very different lights.

Joe Heim

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Class

Subject

Civics

History

July 16, 2018

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September 9, 2015

Names Do Matter

The start of the school year is an important time to remember that names have meaning—whether they belong to monuments, mountains or to your own students.

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Rights & Activism

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