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Nashville Convention Speech (1850)

In this excerpt, Robert Rhett addresses the consequences of southern states not seceding. In the speech he touches on the topics of emancipation, northern rule and westward expansion.

Robert Rhett

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

December 15, 2017

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Judgement of the Supreme Court of the United States in Plessy v. Ferguson

In the matter of Plessy v. Ferguson, the United States Supreme Court upheld practices that perpetuated Jim Crow segregation, declaring that “separate but equal” accommodations were legal. Nearly 60 years later, the Court overturned the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

Mr. Justice Brown and Mr. Justice Harlan

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

March 3, 2016

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President Obama's Address on the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday

Obama's 2015 speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge honors the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when hundreds of voting-rights activists were brutally attacked by state troopers as they began a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. President Obama reminds us of the spirit and struggle associated with the marchers in Selma, or any group of people meeting injustice.

Barack Obama

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

Geography

March 11, 2015

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Experiment in Fairness

Bayard Rustin was an African American leader who worked for the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) in the 1940s and 1950s for equal rights for all Americans using nonviolence. In this story, he writes about the struggle for an African American man to order a simple hamburger at a restaurant in the Midwest.

Bayard Rustin

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Class

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

July 16, 2018

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War with Mexico

In his editorial, Douglass argues that the Mexican War was a mechanism to expand slavery.

Frederick Douglass

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

January 5, 2018

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October 10, 2019

Support LGBTQ Students and Educators as Our Rights Are Decided

Two people holding hands in front of a rainbow flag.

As the Supreme Court hears cases to decide whether federal law protects LGBTQ people from employment discrimination, one queer educator explains how his colleagues can be accomplices in the fight for LGBTQ civil rights.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

The Opioid Crisis

Addiction can suffocate a community—especially its youngest members. But schools that employ trauma-informed practices are giving childhood victims of the opioid epidemic a fighting chance.

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Literature

The North Star Tea Party

In this poem, Nell and her family follow the North Star and navigate the Underground Railroad to freedom.

Glenda Armand

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

January 8, 2019

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August 18, 2017

Now-based Curriculum

teacher helping stressed student with computer work

Instead of discussing current events only on Tuesdays or only in response to traumatic events, let’s help students use the curriculum to understand and act against current injustices.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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What is a Hate Crime?

This lesson leads students to analyze the nature of hate and explore legislation that addresses hate crimes.

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Civics

July 11, 2017

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