The Grand Council Fire of American Indians wrote this letter in response to the Chicago mayor's 1927 campaign against the use of British textbooks in public schools. The letter condemns the misrepresentation of Native American history in schools.
This toolkit for “Teaching at the Intersections” provides anti-bias essential questions and readings from Perspectives for a Diverse America that can be used to build student understanding of intersectionality in grades K-12.
The digital literacy resources in this toolkit, which can be integrated across all subject areas, are designed to meet present-day challenges in navigating online information and countering online hate.
Cara Liebowitz is a college student, activist, and writer with multiple disabilities. She aims to change the way educators view disability by bringing disability culture, history, and pride into the classroom. She will graduate in Fall 2013 from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in special education.
In this poem, the speaker explores how our culture would be lacking—in people, in music, in movements, in contributions—without contributions of African Americans.