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Who's Helen Keller?
Do children's books distort the truth of Helen Keller's life?
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Whole-of-Community Resilience
Helping young people build resilience against manipulative extremist narratives and conspiracy theories requires all adults in a young person’s trusted network to be equipped with the skills and knowledge to intervene.
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Malcolm X Beyond the Mythology
Episode 14, Season 3 Historian Clarence Lang joins us for a conversation about Malcolm X. We discuss his commitment to Black pride and self-determination and his rejection of the white gaze and the myth of American
March 15, 2021
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Nonviolence and Self-Defense
Episode 5, Season 3 Armed resistance and nonviolent direct action co-existed throughout the civil rights era. In this episode, three historians confront some comfortable assumptions about nonviolence and self-defense
October 13, 2020
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Teaching the Movement’s Most Iconic Figure
Episode 7, Season 3 You cannot teach the civil rights movement without talking about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But it’s critical that students deconstruct the mythology surrounding the movement’s most iconic figure to
November 10, 2020
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Making a Scene: The Movement in Literature and Film
Episode 10, Season 3 From the hard work of organizing to the reality of everyday life under Jim Crow, films and literature can bring historical context to life for students. In this episode, we recommend several “must
December 21, 2020
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The Black Panther Party and the Transition to Black Power
Photography by Getty Images/Bev Grant Episode 15, Season 3 The history of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense can help us understand the transition from civil rights to Black Power and contemporary issues like mass
March 30, 2021
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Community Organizing, Youth Leadership and SNCC
Episode 13, Season 3 In this episode, we talk with movement veteran Courtland Cox about lessons from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and his own development as a young organizer of the Emmett Till
February 22, 2021
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Beyond the “Master Narrative”
Episode 2, Season 3 Students don’t enter our classrooms as blank slates. When it comes to the civil rights movement, we often have to help our students unlearn what they think they know while we’re teaching them what
August 21, 2020
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History Walks: Main Street
A former high school teacher recalls teaching the strikes of the Gilded Age as workers in his rural community began a strike of their own.