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Walkout in Crystal City
A former teacher from Crystal City, Texas, remembers the student walkout that helped launch the Latino civil rights movement 40 years ago.
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Sandra Day O'Connor Views Alice Paul (Transcript)
This piece is to accompany Women's SuffrageWatch the video here.
November 15, 2011
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1961: The Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders looked to invoke federal action and gain national attention as they traveled on interstate bus lines across the South seeking service at white-only waiting rooms and lunch counters.
July 7, 2014
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Students Weigh in on the Golden Globes, #MeToo and #TimesUp
After watching highlights from the Golden Globes, this high school class engaged in some deep discussions about advocacy.
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Any Small Act of Kindness
Sara Kimmel has made her library—and her school—a nurturing, inclusive environment.
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Righting Old Wrongs
By the time the first few Mormon families moved back into Jackson County in 1867, old hostilities no longer threatened their freedom or safety. Nonetheless, Gov. Boggs' Extermination Order remained on the books more than a century, until a subsequent governor made this proclamation in 1976.
April 28, 2016
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What We’re Reading
The latest in culturally aware literature and resources for teachers of all grades.
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Dockery: The Life and Times of Oliver Hart Dockery—A Colored Narrative
An excerpted biography of a colonel from 1888 that shows how views about race evolved for some while racism persisted.
December 14, 2017
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Looking Back at Civil Rights—and Looking Ahead
Like the more than 22,000 students who visit the Civil Rights Memorial Center each year, Brittney Johnson loved the fountain. The 10-year-old Montgomery, Ala., native had never been to the memorial center, even though it’s just a few miles from her house. And like most visitors she was instantly drawn to the circular black granite fountain out in front. This unique piece of architecture, designed by Maya Lin, is engraved with the names of 40 civil rights martyrs. Next to it stands a wall of water that cascades transparently over Martin Luther King Jr.’s well-known paraphrase of Amos 5:24 -- We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.