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Is Freedom Safe?
A First Amendment project challenges schools to take liberties seriously.
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I Am a Man
Richard L. Copley took this photograph in 1968 at the Memphis sanitation workers' strike -- the reason Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis on the day he was killed.
July 9, 2014
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Toolkit for "Being There for Nonbinary Youth"
This toolkit synthesizes the key tips and takeaways from “Being There for Nonbinary Youth” and offers online resources for supporting transgender students.
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STEM by the Numbers
In this lesson, students use data to analyze the participation of white, black, Asian and Hispanic men and women in STEM careers as compared with their participation in the general workforce. They then discuss the possible reasons identity groups are unequally represented in STEM careers.
April 19, 2016
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From Awareness to Action
Young people make great political activists. How can you get them involved in fighting for issues that matter?
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MLK Dream Update
This political cartoon by Pat Bagley illustrates how income inequality can be viewed as the next chapter of Martin Luther King’s struggle.
September 3, 2015
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Paragraph 175
The German Reichstag passed the following version of Paragraph 175, which imposed harsher legal restrictions and penalties on sexual activity between men, in 1935. With this law came a dramatic increase in the number of individuals facing prosecution for homosexual activity.
July 2, 2014
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Looking Closely at Ourselves
In this lesson, students explore race and self-identity by creating self-portraits. The lesson aims to help students develop detailed observational skills and use these skills in relation to themselves and others. It also begins constructing a vocabulary that is crucial in helping build community and discuss some of the more challenging aspects of race and racial identity formation.
September 1, 2011
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BROWN V. BOARD: The United States, Circa 1954
The state of the union when the Brown decision came down.
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Teaching Hard History Podcast
Learning for Justice is relaunching the Teaching Hard History podcast series with host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., to resist current efforts to erase and alter our nation’s history.
- Teaching Hard History Podcast Series
- Slavery and the Civil War, Part 1
- Teaching Hard History: American Slavery |Key Concepts Videos