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John Heffernan

Before joining Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Heffernan was the director of the Genocide Prevention Initiative at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. As a senior investigator with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), he led three investigations to the Darfur region of Sudan and was the lead author of PHR’s report, Assault on Survival. Previously, he served as the Chief of Party for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Guyana. In 1995, Heffernan helped establish and run, as executive director, the Coalition for International Justice, a Washington, D.C.-based
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Inclusion of Community Wisdom

Partnerships with community organizations can help extend classroom activities, provide additional support for students’ needs and add new perspectives to teaching material—all while sending the message that communities are valuable learning resources.
May 26, 2023
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Petition to the North Carolina General Assembly from Currituck County Citizens (1861)

The petitioners, who fear that the free black population of Currituck County will join with enslaved people in a revolt against the white people of the county, request that the North Carolina General Assembly to remove all free black people from the county. They suggest this can be done either by forcing them from their homes or by condemning them into slavery. The petitioners also advise the assembly to boost the number of enslavers in Currituck.
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“Citizens of Currituck County”
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9-12
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Slavery
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History
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Identity Diversity
December 15, 2017