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We Can Create Change Together
Understanding key concepts about solidarity and the power of diverse coalitions can help students work toward justice.
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Prison Writings
When Leonard Peltier thinks of the massacre at Wounded Knee, he hears the screams of women and children. Although the vehicle for killing has changed, Peltier explains how American Indians are still being killed off in the modern day.
July 2, 2014
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Freedom Wasn’t Free in ’64—and It Isn’t Free Now
‘Freedom Summer,’ an American Experience film, highlights an overlooked but essential period in the civil rights movement.
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Papalotzin and the Monarchs: A Bilingual Tale of Breaking Down Walls
The day finally arrived when the Great North built a Great Wall to separate itself from the Great South. But would they live to regret it?
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Toolkit for Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education
Apply the seven-step case method to another case—or to a case of your own.
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2011 Teaching Tolerance Award Winners
Teaching Tolerance recognized five outstanding educators with the first-ever Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching on Dec. 9th in Washington, D.C.
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Sherman’s Special Field Order, No. 15
Sherman’s Order is the source of the phrase, “forty acres and a mule,” a believed promise for land redistribution to former enslaved people.
January 9, 2018
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An Act to Protect Religious Freedom and Recognize Equality in Civil Marriage
With this law, passed by the General Assembly in 2009, Vermont became the fourth state to recognize same-sex marriages.
July 2, 2014
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Literature
I Am Everyone
In this poem, the speaker represents all Native Americans or individuals labeled as Other and persecuted as a result.
July 7, 2014
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Speaking Up Against Racism Around the Coronavirus
The coronavirus became racialized, so it’s critical that educators understand the historical context and confront racist tropes and xenophobia from students and colleagues.