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Black History Month: Celebrating African American Literature

This Black History Month, we’re encouraging educators to celebrate the history of Black achievement, joy and creativity. This week, to support that work, we’ll be sharing resources for exploring the rich tradition of African American literature with students in your classroom.

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An Angry Black Woman on the Subject of the Angry White Man

February 18, 2020

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Teaching Hard History: American Slavery | Key Concept Videos

Film cover of The Forgotten Slavery of Our Ancestors.

In these short videos, historians and scholars explore the undertaught history of African and Indigenous enslavement in what is now the United States. (Available for streaming only)

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

Social Studies

History

April 22, 2020

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Music Reconstructed: Dom Flemons, Black Cowboys and the American West

Installment 2 From ranches to railroads, learn about the often unrecognized role that African Americans played in the range cattle industry, as Pullman porters and in law enforcement. In part two of this special series

March 18, 2022

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March 1, 2018

We Rest Our Case: American Slavery Is Widely Mistaught

Abolitionists William Still, Sojourner Truth, William Loyd Garrison, unidentified male and female slaves, and Black Union soldiers in front of American flag

After hearing from skeptics about our Teaching Hard History report findings, TT Director Maureen Costello came across striking new evidence that the project is necessary.

Topic

Slavery

text

Informational

Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship

This text explores the relationship between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, two self-made men whose lives intersected near the end of America's Civil War.

Russell Freedman

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Class

Subject

History

July 10, 2017

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August 29, 2017

For White Allies in Search of a Solution to American Racism / When Folks of Color Are Exhausted

Teaching Tolerance students engaging in discussion

Racism, white privilege and white supremacy are challenges that people of color neither created nor should be expected to resolve. This scholar encourages white allies to step up.

Topic

Rights & Activism

text

Informational

Facing the School Dropout Dilemma: The interaction of sexual orientation with school dropout rates

The American Psychological Association (APA) published “Facing the School Dropout Dilemma: The interaction of sexual orientation with school dropout rates” on its website in 2012. The APA is widely regarded as the most prominent professional organization for psychologists in the United States.

American Psychological Association

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

July 5, 2014

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January 2, 2019

Open Secrets in First-Grade Math: Teaching About White Supremacy on American Currency

Shattered piggy bank laying on top of a large collection of U.S. currency coins.

Studying money is a staple of first-grade math. This teacher used it as an opportunity to educate about—and push back against—sexism, racism and white supremacy.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

article

February 14, 2018

“All Our Terrible and Beautiful History”: Teach American History as a Human Story

Professor David W. Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, explains why prevailing American historical narratives necessitate Teaching Tolerance's Teaching Hard History report and recommendations.

Topic

Slavery Rights & Activism

text

Informational

Proclamation: To the Great White Father (November, 1969)

The announcement on November 20, 1969 from 89 American Indians – mostly students from colleges and universities – that they were taking over Alcatraz Island, set in motion what would become the longest occupation of a federal facility by Native Americans to date. This report aired a year later on NBC News, in December 1970, six months before the occupation ended.

American Indian Movement (AIM)

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

Geography

July 2, 2014

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