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August 18, 2025

What Is Social Justice Education?

Image of a book with pages and photos of children and youth.

Scholar and educator Lee Anne Bell explains social justice education and highlights its role in actively countering injustice and helping to build an inclusive democracy for the benefit of all.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Peggy Moss

Peggy Moss is a freelance writer and former civil rights attorney based in Freeport, Maine. She the author of the award-winning children's book Say Something.

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August 21, 2013

Teaching the Movement, Beyond Four Famous Words

The March on Washington was more than a backdrop to “I Have a Dream.”

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Rights & Activism

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May 12, 2011

Stop Using Schools to Enforce Immigration Laws

U.S. public schools are not branch offices of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That’s the message the Obama administration sent out in a letter to the nation’s school districts last week.

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Immigration Rights & Activism

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Ela Bhatt was a pioneer in women’s empowerment and grassroots development. In addition to establishing the Self-Employed Women’s Association in India, Bhatt also founded India’s first women’s bank, Cooperative Bank of SEWA, and served as a member of the Parliament of India from 1986 to1989.

Learning for Justice Staff

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9-12

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Class Gender & Sexual Identity

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History

Economics

August 7, 2017

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Y'all Still Don't Hear Me Though

In this essay, Lecia J. Brooks reacts to the rioting in Baltimore by reflecting on her experiences following the Rodney King verdict in 1992.

Lecia J. Brooks

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6-8

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Civil Rights Movement Class Rights & Activism

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Civics

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Economics

November 4, 2015

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Black Political Thought

Episode 14, Season 4 Black political ideologies in the early 20th century evolved against a backdrop of derogatory stereotypes and racial terrorism. Starting with Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Agency

March 31, 2022

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Introduction to Action Planning: Toolkit

This toolkit facilitates an introduction to action planning, offering a structure for planning individual or collective action for change.

August 11, 2024

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the opinion for Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, a groundbreaking case that overturned the "separate but equal" standard set forth in Plessy v. Ferguson. The Supreme Court decided this case unanimously on May 17, 1954.

Earl Warren

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6-8 9-12

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Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

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Civics

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July 2, 2014

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April 4, 2012

Dr. King’s Global Impact

When I teach lessons about Martin Luther King Jr., I always wonder exactly how students will connect with the events and themes. My adult students are refugees and immigrants from different cultural backgrounds. Some of them were cultural minorities in their countries. Others are experiencing racial discrimination for the first time in the United States.

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Immigration Rights & Activism

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