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Humanity, Healing and Doing the Work
Honoring our collective humanity will result in an education system in which all children thrive.
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Teaching Reconstruction Is Absolutely Necessary
Most state standards don’t accurately represent the Reconstruction era. The Zinn Education Project’s new Teach Reconstruction campaign and report highlight why truthful teaching about this period is a must.
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Hate at School: February 2019
Instead of lessons about black history and culture, February brought slurs, blackface, threats and even violence at some U.S. schools.
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Only a Lynching Is a Lynching
We must resist language that compares the challenging of powerful men to racial terror.
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McCarthy: Enemy of the Negro People (excerpt, p. 14)
This journal article excerpt describes how the House Un-American Activities Committee tried to undermine the Civil Rights Movement by targeting some activists as communistic sympathizers. Eslanda Goode Robeson used her testimony as a platform to speak out against American hypocrisy and injustice.
July 6, 2022
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Segregation by Design
Our national understanding of segregation is incomplete unless we face the history of residential redlining. Richard Rothstein, author of 'Color of Law,' explains why.
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Freedom Summer and Democracy Today
This overview of Freedom Summer 1964 connects to actions for strengthening democracy today.
August 11, 2024
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August 23, 2017
Toolkit for "What Is the 'Alt-Right'?"
Test your knowledge of “alt-right” facts, terms and influencers.
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Another Slavery Simulation: We Can and Must Do Better
A simulation of an auction during a fifth-grade lesson about slavery last week is just the latest illustration of why we need better ways to teach hard history.
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“Holden Caulfield is a typical teenager”?
When this teacher’s classroom of white students identified The Catcher in the Rye protagonist Holden Caulfield as a “typical teenager,” she knew she needed to broaden their idea of what “typical” teenage problems look like.