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Fannie Lou Hamer’s Testimony at the 1964 Democratic Convention (Transcript)

This piece is to accompany Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and African Americans Face and Fight Obstacles to Voting.Watch the video here.When a group of African-American delegates from Mississippi demanded to be seated at the 1964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, the moving testimony by Fannie Lou Hamer made this former sharecropper a national spokeswoman for civil rights overnight.

October 26, 2011

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June 16, 2011

Growing Up with Abriendo Puertas

This piece accompanies the Teaching Tolerance article "Opening Doors on the Border."

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October 5, 2016

Civic Education in the Age of Clinton and Trump

For the first time in 34 years, this social studies teacher feels forced to not do his job when it comes to teaching the election.

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Issue 30, Fall 2006

Cooperative Learning

How to help your students talk about race.

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May 26, 2016

Forging Partnerships With Our School Communities

Tapping into community resources conveys to students that their families, their neighbors and they themselves matter.

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Rights & Activism

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February 13, 2017

How ‘Homegoing’ Has Changed My Teaching

After reading Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, this teacher is doubling down on his efforts to root the study of literature and written expression in an emancipatory impulse.

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Class Rights & Activism

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June 16, 2011

Size Bias As A Social Construction

Body image ideals, like race and gender, are social constructs that have grown out of a combination of history, politics, class, and moral values. One need look back only a few generations, or across cultures, to see

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November 18, 2011

Finding the Civil Rights Movement in Oregon

As a middle school student, I was perplexed by a quote by George Santayana that my history teacher posted on the wall. It read, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” As a budding history teacher, it continued to puzzle me.

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Rights & Activism

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July 27, 2016

Small Stories With Superpowers

Inspired by a Teaching Tolerance story, this educator asked her third-grade students to create original superheroes modeled after themselves.

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Bullying & Bias

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February 21, 2017

Mindfulness: Good for You and Your Students

Teachers and students benefit equally from less stress in the classroom and in their lives. Consider bringing mindfulness—one stress reliever—into your classroom.

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Bullying & Bias

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