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‘Here To Tell My Story’
In developing the One Survivor Remembers kit, Teaching Tolerance's Curriculum Specialist/Writer Jeff Sapp spoke extensively with Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein.
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The War in Vietnam
After a classmate died in Vietnam, a group of Black community members wrote and distributed this leaflet encouraging “Negro boys” to avoid the draft.
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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Underwriting Manual: Underwriting and Valuation Procedure under Title II of the National Housing Act
This text contains sections of the Federal Housing Administration’s underwriting manual that detail valuations of property based on racial factors.
July 18, 2022
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Freedom Primer No. 1: The Convention Challenge and the Freedom Vote
This pamphlet from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) explains their unsuccessful 1964 Democratic National Convention challenge in Atlantic City and the MFDP’s plans moving forward from the convention.
July 18, 2022
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Incident in Hattiesburg
Howard Zinn calls for an end to the police brutality Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) volunteers experience in Mississippi.
July 18, 2022
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A. Philip Randolph Oral History Interview 1
This text is a transcription of a meeting between A. Philip Randolph and Harry Truman in which Randolph encourages Truman to pass an executive order barring Jim Crow laws in the armed forces.
July 18, 2022
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Statement by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on the War in Vietnam, Fire, Praise for SNCC Statement on Vietnam, Murdered: Sammy Younge
The text is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s official statement denouncing U.S. actions in Vietnam, plus a press release and a newspaper article on SNNC.
July 18, 2022
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Violence Stalks Voter-Registration Workers in Mississippi
This Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) report details violent reprisals toward voter-registration workers in Mississippi.
June 22, 2022
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Report on Draft Program (found in Atlanta’s Black Paper, August 25, 1966)
Issued in the August 25, 1966, edition of Atlanta’s Black Paper, this report on the Vietnam War draft describes the violent actions of American military personnel toward peaceful Black protestors over the course of several days.
June 22, 2022