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Ain’t I a Woman?

Sojourner Truth delivered this speech at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Born into slavery, Truth is widely known for her abolition and women’s rights work. Two versions of this speech are included.

Sojourner Truth

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Class Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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History

July 2, 2014

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Beyond the Barbed Wire

Helen Tsuchiya, born a U.S. citizen, tells what it was like to move from her home to an internment camp surrounded by barbed wire after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Helen Tsuchiya and Larry Long

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Immigration Rights & Activism

Subject

History

July 2, 2014

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Connected to Everything: A story from the Bitterroot Salish

“Connected to Everything” is a story written by Jennifer Greene and published in the Fall 2009 issue of Teaching Tolerance. This story is adapted from a traditional tale of the Bitterroot Salish, a Native American tribe in Montana.

Jennifer Greene

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

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History

July 2, 2014

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Jerrie Mock

Tamera Bryant relays the story of Jerrie Mock and her dream to fly an airplane around the world. In spite of naysayers, including her family, who tried to remind her that girls grow up to be wives and mothers, Jerrie followed her dream and became the first woman to fly an airplane around the world.

Tamera Bryant

Grade Level

K-2

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

History

July 9, 2014

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Rough on Rats

"Rough on Rats" is a late 19th-century advertisement for a pesticide. The image depicts a stereotypical Chinese man eating a rat.

Forbes Co. Boston

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Immigration

Subject

History

September 3, 2015

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African

This excerpt gives a first-person account of Equiano’s forced transatlantic voyage, including being brought on board, the horrors of being on deck and being sold in the yard once the ship reached land.

Olaudah Equiano

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Slavery

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History

July 29, 2016

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I’m proud . . .

This poster, from 1944, was created by artist John Newton Howitt during World War II for the United States War Manpower Commission and the United States Office of War Information.

John Newton Howitt

Grade Level

3-5 6-8 9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

History

February 23, 2017

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Signs behind the bar, in Birney, Montana

A black and white image of a wall behind a bar with signs that read "Positively No Beer Sold to Indians" and "God Bless America".

This photograph, from 1941, was taken by Marion Post Wolcott in Birney, Montana.

Marion Post Wolcott

Grade Level

3-5 6-8 9-12

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Rights & Activism

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History

February 27, 2017

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Issue 36, Fall 2009

Talking Race

Teaching Tolerance illustration with two teachers talking about 'dialogue', 'discussion', and 'debate'

Making a space where teachers can talk about difference.

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June 16, 2011

A Town, a Teacher and a Wartime Tragedy

On the arid flatlands near the small town of Delta, Utah, 140 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, the scorching summer winds whip dust through the dry brush, and winter cold freezes the ground under a blanket of snow. In this forbidding landscape lie remnants of an American tragedy -- an internment camp that housed over 8,000 Japanese Americans behind barbed wire and armed guards during World War II. Named for a barren nearby mountain, the camp became known as Topaz.

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