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What We're Watching
Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these TT-approved films!
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Journalism for Justice
Students plan, write, edit and distribute a piece of print or digital journalism about a relevant social problem or issue.
July 13, 2014
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A Teacher's Guide to Rerouting the Pipeline
Daily decisions can help divert students from the school-to-prison pipeline.
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Advice From the Experts
TT answers your tough questions. This time, we discuss “colorism” and helping schools in crisis.
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Charles Henry Langston, Freedom Fighter
Charles Henry Langston was an early abolitionist in Ohio who risked his own safety and freedom to help another man escape slavery.
January 7, 2019
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The Confederate Spy: A Story of the War of 1861
This is an excerpt from a work of fiction about the Civil War. It expresses a pro-Northern view while at the same time arguing that enslaved persons do not desire freedom.
December 15, 2017
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Stake of the South
This is a Democratic campaign document discussing the South’s monetary stakes.
December 15, 2017
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Literature
Story Telling
In this poem, a mother tells her children the story of an enslaved mother and her beautiful daughter who is sold away.
December 15, 2017
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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.
January 4, 2018
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Listen, Look and Learn: Using Primary Sources to Teach the Freedom Struggle
Episode 12, Season 3 Oral histories, historic sites, archives and museums expand students’ understanding of the past. They fill in gaps in our textbooks—complementing what’s included and capturing what’s not. This
February 4, 2021