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A Message From Our Director
Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello discusses the difficulty of teaching the 2016 election.
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Speak Up!
A collection of real-life stories, gathered by the Southern Poverty Law Center, on how people across the United States spoke up against everyday bigotry.
June 25, 2022
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The Fighting Mynahs: A story from Hawaii about how it's better to share and cooperate than to squabble and fight
A story from Hawaii about how it's better to share and cooperate than squabble and fight.
July 3, 2014
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Caged Bird
Through an extended metaphor, Maya Angelou—who has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States—uses a caged bird and a free bird to juxtapose the oppressed and the free.
July 5, 2014
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The Fighting Mynahs
A story from Hawaii about how it’s better to share and cooperate than to squabble and fight.
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The Letters
What keeps Michelle Spathelf in the classroom? Giving truant teenagers—and their families—hope.
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"We Don't Use That Language Anymore"
A leadership program helps Maine students confront the culture of verbal abuse.
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Mary McLeod Bethune
In this lesson, students will read an excerpt of an interview given by Mary McLeod Bethune and will learn that she founded the Daytona National and Industrial School for Negro Girls (now Bethune-Cookman College) in 1904. Through close reading, they will explore and discuss connections between events from Bethune’s life experiences and their own lives, and connections between past and current events.
May 17, 2012
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One School Girl’s Protest of Seventeen Magazine—Now 75,000 Strong
Teenager Julia Bluhm was aware of the kinds of pressures put on adolescent girls to look a certain way. So Julia decided to do something about it by starting an online petition asking Seventeen to include unretouched photos in their magazine.
July 7, 2014
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Medgar Evers
This essay details Medgar Evers’ involvement in the civil rights movement as a pivotal member of the Mississippi NAACP. It also addresses his tragic murder at the hands of a White Citizens Council member.
March 2, 2016