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August 10, 2018

From Charlottesville to Montgomery: Susan Bro on Her Activist Work

TT Staff Writer Coshandra Dillard sits down with Susan Bro to discuss her activist work, her hopes for the future and the legacy of her daughter, Heather Heyer.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 40, Fall 2011

Two Decades of Teaching Tolerance

Explore our turning points from the last 20 years.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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March 1, 2018

We Rest Our Case: American Slavery Is Widely Mistaught

Abolitionists William Still, Sojourner Truth, William Loyd Garrison, unidentified male and female slaves, and Black Union soldiers in front of American flag

After hearing from skeptics about our Teaching Hard History report findings, TT Director Maureen Costello came across striking new evidence that the project is necessary.

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Slavery

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August 1, 2014

Freedom Schools 50 Years Later

Fifty years after the Freedom Schools of 1964, today’s Freedom Schools continue the legacy.

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Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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June 7, 2016

We Can’t Dismantle What We Can’t See: Teaching Concepts of Masculinity

“So, there aren’t any girls in the book?” Find out how an English teacher answered this student question—and fit the male-centered Lord of the Flies into a classroom focused on voices traditionally left in the margins.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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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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Judgement of the Supreme Court of the United States in Plessy v. Ferguson

In the matter of Plessy v. Ferguson, the United States Supreme Court upheld practices that perpetuated Jim Crow segregation, declaring that “separate but equal” accommodations were legal. Nearly 60 years later, the Court overturned the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

Mr. Justice Brown and Mr. Justice Harlan

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9-12

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Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

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Civics

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March 3, 2016

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Issue 36, Fall 2009

Learning to Roar

Irma Lucena and Carmelo Vega, with their sons, Mike Vega and Alex Vega.

Parents find grassroots power.

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Rights & Activism

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March 22, 2017

Starving Schools to Feed Privatization

President Trump’s budget proposal uses the pretense of civil rights to further his school choice agenda—at the expense of research-based public school programming.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 41, Spring 2012

From Awareness to Action

Young people make great political activists. How can you get them involved in fighting for issues that matter?

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Rights & Activism

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