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Issue 44, Summer 2013

Toolkit for “How Will You Mix It Up in 2013?”

This toolkit accompanies the article “How Will You Mix It Up in 2013?” and provides classroom and professional-development resources to help plan a successful Mix It Up at Lunch Day and build on that success all year.

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A. Philip Randolph Oral History Interview 1

This text is a transcription of a meeting between A. Philip Randolph and Harry Truman in which Randolph encourages Truman to pass an executive order barring Jim Crow laws in the armed forces.

Thomas H. Baker

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

July 18, 2022

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Literature

A Letter to My Nephew

In this letter, James Baldwin expresses his love for his nephew and describes the hardships of life as a Black man in the United States.

James Baldwin

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

June 22, 2022

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July 8, 2014

Season of Terror

Before Freedom Summer began, Charles Moore and Henry Dee were the first victims of the project's white-supremacist backlash.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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The Zoot-Suit Riots

In this essay, the author details the violence imposed by GIs in the 1940s on the Mexican American population living in Los Angeles, California.

Learning for Justice Staff

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Rights & Activism

Subject

History

April 28, 2016

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Issue 46, Spring 2014

Toolkit for Hit the Road

This toolkit provides lesson plan ideas for taking a virtual civil rights tour with your students and for bringing the voices of civil rights veterans into the classroom.

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Street Justice

The distrust between the Jewish community and African-American community in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1990s reached an all-time high when a runaway car struck two children.

Jim Carnes

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Religion Immigration

Subject

History

May 22, 2017

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No Promised Land

“When Mormons settled in Missouri in the 1830s, local residents found Mormon beliefs and practices not simply strange, but wrong. … The Mormons, the Missouri governor declared, must be removed—if not by expulsion, then by extermination.”

Jim Carnes

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Religion Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

May 22, 2017

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Can I See Some ID?

Are voter ID laws meant to prevent voter fraud or suppress voter turnout among eligible minority groups? Prior to the 2012 presidential election, a majority of states considered such laws. In this article, Patricia Smith explores the two viewpoints.

Patricia Smith

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

July 7, 2014

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Black Unionists Form Coalition: Organization Will Work for McGovern but Will Not Disband After Election, The New York Times (October 3, 1972)

Newspaper article describing Black laborers’ frustration with the mainstream labor movement and the 1972 formation of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

Philip Shabecoff

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

July 7, 2022

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