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Our Countrymen in Chains
This is an antislavery poem by John Greenleaf Whittier on a broadside with an accompanying woodcut image.
December 15, 2017
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The Freedman's Bureau!
This political cartoon from 1866 attacks Black suffrage and the Freedman’s Bureau.
July 18, 2022
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Representative Lewis Discusses Reenacting Historic Bus Rides of 1961 Video Transcript
This piece is to accompany The Freedom RidersForty years ago, a dozen or so friends decided to test a new ruling that banned the forced separation of whites and blacks in interstate travel. They became known as Freedom Riders, and they paved the way for the civil rights struggle. John Lewis joined the original rides. He is now a Congressman from Georgia. Well, today they're retracing their steps from the spring of '61.
April 5, 2011
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What We're Reading
Teaching Tolerance loves to read! Check out a few of our favorite diverse books for diverse readers and educators.
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Paddling Upstream
Catholic and Protestant youth in Northern Ireland embark on a brighter future.
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Season of Terror
Before Freedom Summer began, Charles Moore and Henry Dee were the first victims of the project's white-supremacist backlash.
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” was a speech given by abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, N.Y., at an event commemorating American independence.
July 3, 2014
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Fighting for Voting Rights and Education
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) enabled millions of Black and other voters of color an opportunity to participate in our democracy. Ten years ago, on June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder significantly weakened a key provision of the landmark VRA. These LFJ articles remind us of the struggle for voting rights and education and the powerful legacy of Freedom Summer 1964. As we confront current voter suppression and education censorship, let us continue the fight for justice in today's movement.
- Freedom Schools for Today’s Justice Movement
- Connect Voting Rights History to Current Policies and Discourse
- Where Do We Go From Here?
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The Night Was Dark
In this story, Elizabeth and her family escape their plantation in the middle of the night with help from Harriet Tubman.
February 19, 2020
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Emancipation Proclamation
With the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln freed all enslaved people in “rebellious” states, forbid the military from repressing their freedom and sanctioned their military service for Union forces. This decree made emancipation a clear objective of the American Civil War.
June 10, 2015