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Hair
In this spoken word piece, Elizabeth Acevedo addresses the beauty standard that is epitomized by fair skin and straight hair.
September 28, 2018
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Student Voices: Raghad and Rahaf Barcudi
Rahaf is a Syrian immigrant who compares her life in Syria to her new life in the U.S.
September 28, 2018
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Online Teaching Can Be Culturally Responsive
Amid school closures, online classes can offer new opportunities for culturally responsive teaching. Here’s what one educator is trying with her fifth grade students.
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I can’t even get to the back of the bus
The photograph depicts disability rights activists protesting for accessible public transit.
July 7, 2022
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Homeowners Picket FHA Officials Over Broken-Down Homes, Unkept Promises, Philadelphia Tribune (June 24, 1972)
A newspaper article about the Federal Housing Administration’s failure to fund promised repairs to Black homeowners
July 7, 2022
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Negro farmer who has brought his cotton samples to town discusses price with cotton buyer. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi
This photograph captures a moment of negotiation between a cotton farmer and a cotton buyer.
July 18, 2022
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Letter from Mrs. J.H. Adams, Macon, Georgia, to the Bethlehem Baptist Association in Chicago, Illinois
The text is a letter from J.H. Adams to the Bethlehem Baptist Association written in 1918.
July 18, 2022
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The Fiery Cross
A Ku Klux Klan newspaper from February 1923 published in Indianapolis, Indiana.
July 18, 2022
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NAACP Lawyer Constance Baker Motley Interviewed by Renee Poussaint (2002)
This interview with NAACP lawyer Constance Baker Motley discusses her experience at the March on Washington and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
July 18, 2022
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Association of Citizens’ Councils of Mississippi, 4th Annual Report July 1958
Segregationists promote their agenda through Mississippi’s Citizens’ Council in an argument for states’ rights and racial integrity.
June 15, 2022