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President Obama's Address on the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday

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Obama's 2015 speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge honors the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when hundreds of voting-rights activists were brutally attacked by state troopers as they began a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. President Obama reminds us of the spirit and struggle associated with the marchers in Selma, or any group of people meeting injustice.
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Barack Obama
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6-8 9-12
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Civil Rights Movement Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism
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Civics
History
Economics
Geography
Social Justice Domain
Diversity Justice Action
March 11, 2015
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Centering Student Experiences

When asking students to explore issues of personal and social identity, teachers must help establish braver spaces where students are seen, valued, cared for, respected, and have opportunities to learn from one another’s experiences and perspectives.
May 26, 2023
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Anti-Immigrant

Animus toward people perceived to be immigrants led to a significant amount of harassment in schools; about 18 percent of the incidents that educators reported were directed toward people seen as “foreign.” This category
May 1, 2019
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Four Freedoms

In his 1941 State of the Union Address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined four fundamental human freedoms—the freedom of speech, of worship, from want, and from fear—for the United States and the rest of the world.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Grade Level
6-8 9-12
Topic
Civil Rights Movement Religion Class Rights & Activism
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Civics
History
Economics
Geography
Social Justice Domain
Identity Diversity Justice Action
June 10, 2015
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Larry Doby Hits One for History

It was Black History Month. I was working with children and youth in an after-school program in the Clarksdale housing projects in Louisville, Ky. Spike Lee's film Malcolm X had just been released. I sat around a table with a group of teenagers discussing Alex Haley’s Autobiography of Malcolm X and James Cone’s Martin & Malcolm & America.