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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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Protecting the Future from Genocide

After the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel eloquently stated “never again.” Since he first uttered this compelling sentiment, genocides have erupted across the world—from Guatemala to Cambodia. April was chosen as Genocide Prevention Month since the Holocaust, Rwandan, Bosnian, Armenian and Cambodian genocides are commemorated during this time. The commemoration began in April 2009 and combined genocide remembrance with prevention.
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A Time to Honor “The Children”

On February 27, 1960, about 300 college students marched into downtown Nashville to confront Jim Crow segregation. Each of the marchers understood that they belonged to a larger movement of young people. Just three weeks earlier, in Greensboro, N.C., four college students staged a sit-in at the whites-only lunch counter in a Woolworth store. That action desegregated the lunch counter and triggered waves of copycat protests—like the one in Nashville.
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Fannie Lou Hamer’s Testimony at the 1964 Democratic Convention (Transcript)

This piece is to accompany Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and African Americans Face and Fight Obstacles to Voting.Watch the video here.When a group of African-American delegates from Mississippi demanded to be seated at the 1964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, the moving testimony by Fannie Lou Hamer made this former sharecropper a national spokeswoman for civil rights overnight.
October 26, 2011