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Issue 37, Spring 2010

Uncovering the Movement

Let students ‘do’ history for themselves.

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Rights & Activism

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James Loewen taught race relations for 20 years at the University of Vermont; prior to that he taught at Tougaloo College in Mississippi. James W. Loewen is the author of several books, including Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The “Great Truth” about the “Lost Cause.”

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Understanding Past and Present Labor Injustice through Music

Period songs give students an understanding of early 19th century labor conditions

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6-8 9-12

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Class

July 6, 2009

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June 16, 2011

Home Was a Horse Stall

This true story is about the internment of a Japanese American family during World War II.

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May 2, 2017

What Is Cinco de Mayo?

A photo of the Mexican flag blowing in the wind.

Mexican culture cannot be reduced to tacos, oversized sombreros and piñatas.

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May 17, 2017

Years After Brown, the Battle for Integration Continues

The Brown decision represents a symbol of the country we still seek to become.

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Rights & Activism

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Hearing About the Bombing of Pearl Harbor: Akiko Kurose

“Akiko Kurose grew up in Seattle, Washington. In this clip, she talks about how she felt when she heard that Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor.”

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3-5

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Class Immigration

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History

February 5, 2019

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Building an Inclusive, Multiracial Democracy

This election season, we ground ourselves in supporting the work to increase power and capacity for a multiracial, inclusive democracy in the South and across our nation. In our Fall 2023 magazine, Angela Glover Blackwell, founder in residence of PolicyLink, and Margaret Huang, CEO and president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, shared their thoughts on the transformational possibilities of that democracy.