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Freedom’s Teacher offers opportunities to share a lesser-known story about a pioneering educator.

Bayard Rustin’s participation in the civil rights movement enshrined his place in the history of the 20th century, and his life’s work has become newly relevant during a time when LGBTQ rights are at the forefront of the American conscience.

Challenges to school names that no longer represent community values are being heard throughout the South. In this toolkit, students will consider the complexities of naming and name changes and explore a strategy for convincing decision-makers that such changes are needed.

A look at the 'dream deferred' and the legacy of Dr. King's dream.

Students need historic context to connect activism of the past to social issues in the present.

As we remember Linda Brown Thompson, we must also consider the reality of the world she lived in when, at the age of 9, she became the face of school desegregation.

This piece is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article "Getting the Civil War Right." Some historians have called the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War the "second American Revolution" and the 13th

An after-school teacher uses trivia to get her elementary students thinking about the world around them—including civil rights history.