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We Can Create Change Together
Understanding key concepts about solidarity and the power of diverse coalitions can help students work toward justice.
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Demystifying the Mind
Across the country, educators are integrating mental health literacy into their curricula.
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Learning to Save Ourselves
When a book characterizes problematic “white savior” tropes, how can it be used to effectively question those concepts with students?
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A Standard to Sustain
Vermont students claim their legacy of participatory democracy.
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Slaves’ Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Legislature (1777)
This petition illustrates how enslaved people used the rhetoric of the American Revolution to point out the colonies’ hypocrisy of demanding freedom and liberty, while themselves having slavery.
January 5, 2018
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Fighting Rebels With Only One Hand
Frederick Douglass argues for African-American participation in the Union army.
August 17, 2018
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May 31, 2018
Spotlight on 'Courageous, Eccentric, Diverse'
TT Educator Grants support social justice work at the classroom, school and district levels. In this interview, grantee Amy Dickerson discusses her project working with students in New Orleans to consider possible replacements for Confederate statues.
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From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, or, Fifteen Years in Slavery
In this excerpt, Robinson describes "the four classes of men" who played pivotal roles in the system of chattel slavery.
December 15, 2017
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Yet Do I Marvel
The poem deals with the awesome and awful power of God in relation to the challenging lives of humans and animals.
February 21, 2019
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"Nonviolence vs. Jim Crow" 1942
Bayard Rustin believed deeply in the power of nonviolence during the era of segregation. In the following essay, he describes its use and effect on a bus ride from Louisville to Nashville.
February 22, 2019