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Dismantling Racial Caste

What is needed to end mass incarceration and permanently eliminate racial caste in the United States? Legal and policy solutions alone are not enough to dismantle racial caste because the methods of racial control within this system are “legal” and rarely appear as outwardly discriminatory. A social movement that confronts the role of race and cultivates an ethic of care must form or else a new racial caste system will emerge in the future.

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

October 14, 2014

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Informational

14th Amendment

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that all people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the state where they reside.

U.S. Constitution

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

July 11, 2017

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October 3, 2019

Recovering and Teaching Local History

Black students in Mansfield, TX during integration crisis, standing in front of a school bus

Local history has a profound effect on our communities. It’s up to educators to learn and teach students about the hard history in their own backyards.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Informational

Who Claims Me?

In Boston, widely regarded as the center of the abolitionist movement, black leaders called on citizens to resist the newly passed Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 in order “to make Massachusetts a battlefield in defense of liberty.”

Learning for Justice Staff

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

December 6, 2017

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April 9, 2018

Youth—United! #Enough in Chicago, Illinois

Alex King #Enough | March for Our Lives | TT Interview

We reached out to students from around the United States who are working to keep their schools safe from gun violence. This time, we caught up with senior Alex King, Peace Warrior and leader with Good Kids, Mad City at North Lawndale College Prep High School.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

November 12, 2020

To Sustain the Tough Conversations, Active Listening Must Be the Norm

Male African-American Teacher Instructing Students | Teaching Tolerance

We have to prepare students—and ourselves—to communicate, question and work our way through a disconnect when the outside world spills into the classroom.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

April 3, 2018

What Does the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mean to You?

For many educators, the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination prompted reflection on how he and the causes he championed continue to shape our lives.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

March 27, 2018

The Bravery of Linda Brown

Linda Brown | Brown v Board of Education of Topeka

As we remember Linda Brown Thompson, we must also consider the reality of the world she lived in when, at the age of 9, she became the face of school desegregation.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

September 29, 2017

First, Denounce the Act

School leaders can learn a lot from Lt. General Jay Silveria’s response to a horrible incident at the Air Force Academy Prep School.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Informational

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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