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Issue 60, Fall 2018

Imagining a World Without White Supremacy

Meet two innovative educators who help students face their communities’ painful histories and envision brighter futures.

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Julian Bond

Julian Bond has served as chair of the NAACP Board of Directors since 1998 and is president emeritus and a board member of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which publishes Teaching Tolerance magazine. He is a distinguished professor in the School of Government at American University in Washington, DC, and a professor of history at the University of Virginia.

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Jennifer Greene

Montana writer and poet Jennifer Greene was teaching college students before she got her first real look at the history of the Flathead Reservation and how her ancestors, the Bitteroot Salish people, came to live there. In her fiction and poetry — including this story — she often puts herself in the place of those ancestors, recreating their voices.

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Chris Seeger

Chris is a seventh-grade U.S. history teacher in the Washington, D.C., area. He is continuously working to design a curriculum that is anti-racist, anti-sexist and pro-social justice. In addition to teaching, Seeger is a doctoral student at George Mason University. His research is focused on how teachers adapt their curriculum and teaching to achieve equity-related goals in high-poverty schools.

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Excerpt from The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea (1450)

Portuguese chronicler Gomes Eannes de Azurara compiled accounts of the earliest voyages along the west African coast and the capture of Africans by Europeans.

Gomes Eannes de Azurara

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9-12

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Slavery

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History

January 4, 2018

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June 30, 2020

Anti-Racist Work in Schools: Are You in it for the Long Haul?

Empty desks in a classroom with a blackboard in the background.

In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, educators and schools across the nation are planning anti-racist work. How will you ensure your school isn’t just going through the motions?

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 53, Summer 2016

Toolkit for "Joseph’s Castle in the Sky"

This toolkit for “Joseph’s Castle in the Sky” includes lesson plans, book lists, games and data to help teachers in K-12 classrooms give their students a deeper understanding of Haitian culture and history.

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Issue 49, Spring 2015

Toolkit for National Treasures

This toolkit will equip you with strategies to engage students in primary source analysis. By learning the right questions to ask, students will come to a more nuanced understanding of history.

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Understanding the Prison Label

What is the long-term harm and wider impact of mass incarceration on people and communities of color? The racial caste system established and perpetuated by mass incarceration continues beyond a prison sentence and extends into families, communities and society at large. The criminalization and demonization of black men creates a “prison label” of stigma and shame that damages the black community as a whole.

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9-12

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Class Rights & Activism

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Social Studies

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October 13, 2014

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Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Conference, 1848

Abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott convened the first women’s rights convention in 1848 in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Their Declaration of Sentiments, modeled after the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, demanded the full rights of citizenship for women.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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6-8 9-12

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Civics

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July 2, 2014

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