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Examining Stereotypes in Books
This lesson is intended to help guide children to respond to literature with an eye toward social justice.
July 10, 2017
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Literature
Story Telling
In this poem, a mother tells her children the story of an enslaved mother and her beautiful daughter who is sold away.
December 15, 2017
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Informational
Charles Henry Langston, Freedom Fighter
Charles Henry Langston was an early abolitionist in Ohio who risked his own safety and freedom to help another man escape slavery.
January 7, 2019
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Multimedia
The History of African-American Social Dance
Why do we dance? African-American social dances started as a way for enslaved Africans to keep cultural traditions alive and retain a sense of inner freedom. They remain an affirmation of identity and independence. In this electric demonstration, packed with live performances, choreographer, educator and TED Fellow Camille A. Brown explores what happens when communities let loose and express themselves by dancing together.
September 28, 2018
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Informational
Mendez v. Westminster
Preceding the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, Mendez v. Westminster challenged the segregation of Mexican Americans in schools in Orange County, California.
July 29, 2016
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Spotlighting—and Quantifying—the Problem
No one knows the extent of the problem nationally. In 2018, the SPLC’s Learning for Justice project, then Teaching Tolerance, collected hundreds of news reports detailing hate in schools directed toward individuals or
April 23, 2019
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Responding to Children's Bereavement During the COVID-19 Pandemic
With over 200,000 children experiencing the loss of a parent or caregiver during the COVID-19 pandemic, educators are becoming grief counselors.
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” was a speech given by abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, N.Y., at an event commemorating American independence.
July 3, 2014
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No Promised Land
“When Mormons settled in Missouri in the 1830s, local residents found Mormon beliefs and practices not simply strange, but wrong. … The Mormons, the Missouri governor declared, must be removed—if not by expulsion, then by extermination.”
May 22, 2017
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Street Justice
The distrust between the Jewish community and African-American community in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1990s reached an all-time high when a runaway car struck two children.
May 22, 2017