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The Silencing of Mary Dyer

In this chapter, Carnes details oppression experienced by the early New England colonists. In particular, he chronicles Mary Dyer’s path from a once uncomfortably conforming Puritan to an outspoken Quaker unshaken by threats, banishment and even death.

Jim Carnes

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Religion Immigration Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

Subject

History

January 23, 2017

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Issue 52, Spring 2016

You Spoke, We Listened

Our recent film, PD guide and magazine issues inspired an unprecedented amount of dialogue with readers.

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Issue 17, Spring 2000

Believe and Let Believe

The editor of Teaching Tolerance writes on critics' objections to the magazine's treatment of gay and lesbian issues

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Issue 40, Fall 2011

The Unaffiliated Unite

Secular students are forming clubs for mutual support—they’ll need teacher-allies.

Topic

Religion

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Issue 47, Summer 2014

Radical!

Teaching Tolerance illustration Raadical

Nine visionaries who changed the way we think about education.

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January 15, 2010

MLK: More Than Just A Dream

Every year around Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the news media start quoting his “I Have A Dream” speech. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s a great speech – certainly one of the best ever given in the cause of civil rights.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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February 1, 2017

What’s a Sanctuary City Anyway?

The news has been abuzz with the term sanctuary city since President Trump issued an executive order on the matter. Attorney Naomi Tsu, who directs the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project, explains exactly what sanctuary cities are.

Topic

Immigration Rights & Activism

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Informational

Race Against Time

Dozens of racially motivated murders took place in the South during the 1950s and 1960s. Time is running out to solve these cold cases.

Shaila Dewan

Grade Level

9-12

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

Geography

July 5, 2014

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Issue 5, Fall 2023

Exclusion Is Unconstitutional

Illustration of various people looking down at the same spot with a mosaic of book covers behind them.

Acts of censorship in education perpetuated by a small group with concentrated power go against the principles outlined in the United States Constitution.

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Reconstruction

These images show how different people reacted to the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.

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Grade Level

3-5 6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

January 28, 2020

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