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Survival, Resistance and Resilience
Honoring the lives of enslaved people, the Whitney Plantation’s learning tour deepens our understanding of slavery in the United States, the people who survived it and their legacies.
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Five Things to Know About ‘Perspectives’
Perspectives for a Diverse America just turned one year old! Here are five things you need to know about this curriculum.
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Injustice on Our Plates
In 2010, the Southern Poverty Law Center interviewed 150 immigrant women who left Latin American nations in search of a better life in the United States. Most of them landed in physically crippling, low-paying jobs that make our lives easier but have rendered them voiceless and invisible.
May 25, 2011
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La Linea
In their trek from Mexico to the U.S. border, this young group is reminded that dangers lurk beneath them and hang over their heads every day and every night.
July 7, 2014
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Power of the Vote: Lifting the Veil of White Supremacy, From the Ocoee Massacre to January 6
Civics education must include complete, honest histories and encourage young people to use their right to vote.
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Only Young Once: The Case for Dismantling the South’s School-to-Prison Pipeline
We must end the long-standing maltreatment and criminalization of Black children in the education system throughout the South.
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Cesar Chavez Monument Means More for Students
As a child I asked my father whether there was someone like Martin Luther King Jr. who had fought for Latino rights. “Yes,” he said, and told me that his name was César Chávez. My father, a former farmworker who had toiled in the agricultural fields from childhood until adulthood, taught me about César Chávez, Dolores Huerta and the farmworker struggle.