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I Didn't Know There Were Cities in Africa!
Challenging children's — and adults' — misperceptions about the African continent.
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Lives of the Enslaved in Their Own Words
In the face of extreme punishment for enslaved people and breaking the law for whites, roughly 5 percent of the enslaved population learned to read and write. Letters like the ones written below show the lengths they would go to learn.
January 7, 2019
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Effects in Africa
These images show the negative effects that slavery had on Africa and African people.
January 28, 2020
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Mary Church Terrell
In this lesson of the series, “Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice,” students will read and analyze text from “The Progress of Colored Women,” a speech made by Mary Church Terrell in 1898. Terrell was the first president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), an organization that was formed in 1896 from the merger of several smaller women’s clubs, and was active during the period of Jim Crow segregation in the South.
May 11, 2012
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What We're Watching
Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these LFJ-approved films!
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Connected to Everything: A story from the Bitterroot Salish
“Connected to Everything” is a story written by Jennifer Greene and published in the Fall 2009 issue of Teaching Tolerance. This story is adapted from a traditional tale of the Bitterroot Salish, a Native American tribe in Montana.
July 2, 2014
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What We're Watching
Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these TT-approved films!
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Toolkit for “A Museum. A Memorial. A Message.”
This toolkit—adapted from our viewer’s guide for 'An Outrage: A Documentary Film About Lynching in the American South'—provides guidance for educators hoping to tackle this tough topic in the classroom.