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Issue 49, Spring 2015

Toolkit for Behind the Shield

Critical literacy is just as important for visual texts, such as cartoons, as it is for the written word. This toolkit will help your students read Sikhtoons while thinking about the social justice implications.

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Teaching 'The New Jim Crow'

Teaching Tolerance teamed up with Michelle Alexander—author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness—to offer educators two FREE webinars exploring mass incarceration in the United States and how to teach about it.

September 23, 2014

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Steffany Sorensen Moyer

Steffany Sorensen Moyer is the program coordinator at Learning for Justice. Prior to joining LFJ, she worked at a public library for several years, and is currently completing her master’s degree in secondary education from Auburn University Montgomery.

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Issue 3, Fall 2022

Expanding Democracy Through Intersecting Movements

Photo collage featuring the Civil Rights Memorial Center fountain.

The connections between past and present intersecting movements in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Civil Rights Memorial Center educate and inspire individuals to continue the fight for justice.

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Rights & Activism

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"It's Time to Pick Up Where Dr. King Left Off"

Michael Dunn, a white male, shot and killed Jordan Davis, an unarmed African-American male, while Davis was in a parked vehicle at a gas station. This segment from 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets profiles various perspectives regarding the role that race played in the killing.

Marc Silver

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9-12

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Rights & Activism

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Civics

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August 19, 2016

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Freedom Petition Submitted by Enslaved People to the New Hampshire State Legislature in Portsmouth on Nov. 12, 1779

This petition illustrates how enslaved people used the rhetoric of the American Revolution to point out the colonies’ hypocrisy of demanding freedom and liberty, while themselves having slavery.

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6-8 9-12

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Slavery

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History

January 5, 2018

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December 7, 2016

Teaching in a Post-Truth Era

In an era in which truth is no longer the main currency of public reason, we must prepare our students to navigate and disrupt lies perpetuated by politicians and media outlets.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 50, Summer 2015

Toolkit for Learning From the Inside

More than 60,000 youth are confined in 2,500 juvenile justice facilities in the United States every year. This toolkit provides a snapshot of effective practices used by educators who work in locked facilities—with application in other educational settings.

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January 18, 2017

Women's March Youth Ambassadors Lead the Way

The Women’s March on Washington Youth Ambassadors are sending a message: Young people’s voices must be heard.

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Rights & Activism

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January 27, 2017

For My Students, the Women’s March Is Just the Beginning

When this teacher saw how devastated her feminist student group was by the 2016 election, she decided to do something to make them proud. She decided to march.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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