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Issue 42, Fall 2012

Toolkit for 'Be a Good Boy'

Story Corner is a student-directed feature in Teaching Tolerance magazine. In the current issue, we tell the story of the Tennessee House member who cast the deciding vote for women’s suffrage. Vocabulary lapel [luh-

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June 2, 2016

Teaching About Activism: The Era of Antebellum Reform

Read why this teacher thinks more social studies education should focus on activism in the past.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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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

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History

January 23, 2017

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Informational

Beauty and Body Image in the Media

This article presents facts and statistics pertaining to the media's negative influence on female body image, the diet industry's booming numbers, and the link between media and peer pressure to look younger and stay thinner.

Media Awareness Network

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

History

Economics

July 2, 2014

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Issue 54, Fall 2016

Toolkit for "One Hundred Years in the Making"

This toolkit for “One Hundred Years in the Making” provides instructional ideas to experience the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) without traveling to Washington, D.C.

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Issue 11, Spring 1997

"Unite and Overcome!"

Chicana activist Elizabeth Martínez calls for fearless thinking about racism.

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Rights & Activism

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Informational

Report on Draft Program (found in Atlanta’s Black Paper, August 25, 1966)

Issued in the August 25, 1966, edition of Atlanta’s Black Paper, this report on the Vietnam War draft describes the violent actions of American military personnel toward peaceful Black protestors over the course of several days.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

June 22, 2022

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June 9, 2014

Defeating Sexism in Sports Culture

The same stereotypes that hurt and limit girls can also hurt boys and any student who does not adhere to binary gender norms.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Informational

Redstockings Manifesto

The feminist organization Redstockings was founded in New York in 1969 on the premise that women were oppressed by male supremacy. Their manifesto calls for female class consciousness and a fight for liberation.

Redstockings

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

Economics

July 2, 2014

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STEM by the Numbers

In this lesson, students use data to analyze the participation of white, black, Asian and Hispanic men and women in STEM careers as compared with their participation in the general workforce. They then discuss the possible reasons identity groups are unequally represented in STEM careers.

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

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Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

Math & Technology

Science & Health

April 19, 2016

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