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Expelling Islamophobia
Anti-hate and anti-bullying policies aren’t enough in the fight against Islamophobia.
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An Open Letter to Teachers Everywhere
A look at an educator's struggle to reconcile ideology with reality in our nations' classrooms and schools.
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Slavery as a Form of Racialized Social Control
How did racial hierarchy adapt and persist after Emancipation? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.
October 13, 2014
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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.
July 16, 2018
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Why We Need Black History Month
Analyzing and celebrating Black history helps students think critically about present-day social issues.
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Toolkit for "Segregation Forever?"
This toolkit for “Segregation Forever?” provides an activity for students to use statistics and written analysis to express complex ideas about history.
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The 65th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
December 5 marks the 65th anniversary of the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. It’s critical not to oversimplify or whitewash this watershed moment. These resources help students contextualize the boycott—and the civil rights movement at large—beyond Rosa Parks’ role, with a focus on women who were also instrumental in sparking change.
- ‘Browder v. Gayle’
- Five Ways to Avoid Whitewashing the Civil Rights Movement
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The Reich Citzenship Law of September 15, 1935
The Nuremberg Laws embedded many of the racially based ideological principles held by the Nazi party into written law. The German Reichstag passed this set of laws on September 15, 1935, initiating a period of legal discrimination against those the German government deemed racially inferior. The Reich Citizenship Law is one of the Nuremburg Laws.
July 3, 2014
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A Message From Our Director
Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello implores educators to pass on these lessons of love in the face of hate.
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Learning to Follow
Rethinking school emphasis on leadership can benefit kids who thrive behind the scenes.