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Freedom Riders

The freedom riders, black and white, joined together to effect change. Traveling across the South while enduring ridicule and pain, they helped ensure that doors were open to all people, regardless of skin color.

Rhonda Brownstein

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

July 5, 2014

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Issue 35, Spring 2009

Freedom Riders

An angry mob beat the Freedom Riders when they arrived in Montgomery. How do you explain that to young children?

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July 19, 2016

Magical Cloaks and Targets?

In the wake of more shootings, this white educator and father contemplates how he can undermine a system that makes his sons and him safer than their African-American counterparts.

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Issue 33, Spring 2008

Does My Town Have a Racist Past?

Teaching Tolerance illustration with a black family leaves town while neighbors turn the back at them, and the sign says "Whites Only in this town After Dark"

How students can convert the shameful history of sundown towns in the United States into a rich opportunity for setting the record straight.

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Army Office Letter and “I am Committee” Broadside

This Reconstruction-era broadside shows the ways in which African Americans were intimidated and threatened in order to maintain a racially stratified society.

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Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

January 9, 2018

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Map from “Freedom and Slavery, and the Coveted Territories”

A map of the United States with shading to indicate slave states, free states and territories, with details such as the states’ representation in Congress and their number of enslaved people.

Horace Greeley & Thomas M’Elrath

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

Geography

December 14, 2017

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February 8, 2016

Let’s Talk About Lula

Class discussions about To Kill a Mockingbird typically focus on the book’s white protagonists. This brand-new TT lesson turns the lens by focusing on the perspective of one of the book’s African American characters.

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March 7, 2016

Educating “Those Kids”

After a colleague told her, “I’m not coming back next year,” this teacher reflected on what makes her an effective anti-bias educator.

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June 25, 2012

Writing the Powerless Out of History

In a recent discussion about a history reading, I asked students if they understood the need to think critically about what we read, even if the reading is labeled “historical.”

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Bullying & Bias

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Issue 29, Spring 2006

Remembering Rosa Parks

Teaching Tolerance managing editor Brian Willoughby remembers Rosa Parks and her radical legacy.

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