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March 26, 2010

Enduring Images Captured the Conscience of the Nation

A powerful collection of Civil Rights-era photographs is on display now through August 2010 at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. If you can’t organize a class trip to the museum, consider taking your students on a virtual tour of the era.

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Rights & Activism

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Four Freedoms

In his 1941 State of the Union Address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined four fundamental human freedoms—the freedom of speech, of worship, from want, and from fear—for the United States and the rest of the world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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6-8 9-12

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Civil Rights Movement Religion Class Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

Economics

Geography

June 10, 2015

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September 2, 2010

Speak Acholi? No? Then You Need An Interpreter

When I entered the classroom to interpret for the middle school parent and teacher conference, the student shouted that I wasn’t necessary. The teacher had called for my services because for two semesters she had been telling the mother that her son was flunking. And for two semesters, the mother had grinned ecstatically and said, “Thank you”—her only English words. The son had “interpreted” to his mother that he was on the honor roll.

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Immigration Rights & Activism

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Issue 60, Fall 2018

Toolkit for "The School-to-Deportation Pipeline"

Silhouettes of children behind a chainlink fence.

Educators can take steps to stop the school-to-deportation pipeline. Use this toolkit to learn more about how you can reduce the risks undocumented students face.

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February 19, 2015

Privilege Paralysis on a College Campus

Teaching the movement to high schoolers gave this college student an opportunity to address her personal "privilege paralysis" and embrace her potential as an agent of change.

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Rights & Activism

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Inaugural Editorial

William Lloyd Garrison’s "Inaugural Editorial" was published in the first issue of The Liberator, an influential radical abolitionist newspaper, on January 1, 1831.

William Lloyd Garrison

Grade Level

9-12

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Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

Geography

July 7, 2014

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Issue 47, Summer 2014

Native Youth Think Globally, Act Locally

These student activists knew their community’s issues were relevant worldwide—so they made their voices heard globally.

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Rights & Activism

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May 22, 2018

Teachers, Facebook and Civic Engagement

person's hands scrolling through smartphone screen

In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, many people—educators chief among them—joined activist Facebook groups. Researchers at the University of Florida studied how these groups influenced educators’ civic engagement. Here’s what they learned.

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Rights & Activism

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January 21, 2020

Future Voters Project: Build Your Registration Team

Two students, seated at a table covered in documents, facilitating a registration drive while another student fills out a sheet of paper across from them.

The first step to a successful voter registration drive is assembling the right team. Here’s how you can find the folks you need and get them excited!

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Rights & Activism

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Rick Mula

Rick Mula is an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center. The aim of Rick’s fellowship project is to reduce the discrimination that LGBT youth living in Tennessee and Alabama experience in the education, child welfare and juvenile justice systems. His fellowship is sponsored by the Mansfield Family Foundation. Rick graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2015 where he received a graduate certificate in gender, sexuality and women’s studies. Rick was also awarded the Dean Jefferson B. Fordham Human Rights Award and the Blank Rome Alvin Ackerman

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