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Connecting Slavery With the Civil Rights Movement

Episode 8, Season 3 To fully understand the United States today, we have to comprehend the central role that slavery played in our nation’s past. That legacy is also the foundation for understanding the civil rights

November 24, 2020

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Jim Crow: Yesterday and Today

Episode 1, Season 4 This season, we’re examining the century between the Civil War and the modern civil rights movement to understand how systemic racism and slavery persisted and evolved after emancipation—and how Black

August 25, 2021

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The House that Love Built

This true story happened after World War I, where a whole village had been destroyed by the fighting.

William W. Price

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3-5

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Class

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History

July 31, 2018

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The Harlem Renaissance: Restructuring, Rebirth and Reckoning

Episode 12, Season 4 During the Harlem Renaissance, more Black artists than ever before were asking key questions about the role of art in society. Oftentimes the Harlem Renaissance is misconstrued as a discrete moment

February 16, 2022

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July 28, 2023

A Letter to Young People on Your Power to Effect Change

A young Black woman standing in front of a voting booth.

Recognize the possibilities of the power of the vote, encourage your friends and family to engage in civic action, and become a change agent in your community.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 43, Spring 2013

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Teaching Tolerance illustration of 2 identical magic box but speaking in different ways

How to challenge language prejudice in the classroom.

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Bullying & Bias

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May 13, 2015

How Samuel Morton Got it Wrong

Most natural scientists of the 19th century held the belief that human beings were not only members of different races but of different species (also known as the theory of polygeny). This school of thought relied on the

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No Place to Pray

In this essay, the author details the kind of systematic persecution that Hutterites endured after settling colonies in the West in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Learning for Justice Staff

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9-12

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Religion Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

Economics

Geography

April 28, 2016

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March 24, 2011

Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

In today’s anti-government, anti-union environment, it’s important to illustrate what happens when the powerful hold all the cards. The Triangle shirtwaist fire presents an opportunity to do just that.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Gary Wellbrock

Dr. Gary Wellbrock is an early elementary educator at a dual-language (American Sign Language and English) school in New York City. He teaches deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing children from diverse backgrounds. He holds a master's degree from Columbia University Teachers College and later became a licensed reading specialist due, in part, to his work with the Hello Friend Foundation. Gary earned his doctoral degree from the Language, Literacy and Learning program at Fordham University.

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