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This toolkit for “Segregation Forever?” provides an activity for students to use statistics and written analysis to express complex ideas about history.

It happens in every class. We’re discussing a text, a publication, a current event, a poem. The content doesn’t matter. It’s the phrase that counts. A student comments and uses the phrase “African American” or even “black people.” The student is white. The reaction of the class – almost all white – is swift. As if choreographed, all eyes turn to the one student of color. The spotlight of eyes shines down and he or she blinks back as if staring into the sun. The teacher should use this moment to open a discussion.

Supporters of the scientific consensus on the human role in climate change and those who deny this consensus are ramping up their messages these days, causing a serious dilemma for science teachers. How can educators act on this teachable moment?

Will the Supreme Court outlaw purposeful integration of our schools?

To accompany Freedom's Main Line

Looking back and looking ahead at the struggle to end segregated education.

Representations of black people as animals is both a past and present manifestation of the United States’ complicated history with race.