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Ask, Investigate and Advocate
Nefertari Yancie, Ph.D., credits her family’s commitment to asking courageous questions, seeking answers and taking action as the impetus for her career in the classroom.
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Honor Martin Luther King Jr. and the Full Movement
As Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaches, educators across the nation will teach about King’s life and works. Countless others will echo his famous quotes. Few will offer a full picture of who King truly was—or of the collectivist movement that surrounded him. These resources can help you offer a fuller account of King, his peers and the ongoing legacy of their shared dreams and actions.
- Teaching the Movement’s Most Iconic Figure
- History Moves With Us
- The Best of Our Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Resources
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Remember the March on Washington
As we remember the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of 1963, it’s critical not to whitewash this history. Contextualize the campaign and the struggle associated with it, including the impact of the march’s organizer, Bayard Rustin—an openly gay Black man. That also includes complicating the event’s most iconic figure, Dr. Martin Luther King, and his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. These resources can help.
- Ten Things to Know About the March on Washington
- Gary Younge: Heroes Are Human
- Teaching About King’s Radical Approach to Social Justice
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Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these LFJ-approved films!
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Learning Virtually Redefined
When the pandemic halted in-person professional learning, facilitators and trainers began imagining a new world.
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Language Access: More Than Translation
School districts in Washington state illustrate the power of making language access foundational—not an add-on.
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Walking in Their Shoes: Using #BlackLivesMatter to Teach the Civil Rights Movement
Episode 16, Season 3 The civil rights movement offers critical context for understanding the systemic police violence, voter suppression efforts, ‘law and order’ rhetoric and criminalization of activism we see today. It
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Queer People Have Always Existed—Teach Like It
Educators must commit to undoing the systemic silencing of queer figures throughout history. Here are some ways to more inclusively explore the past.
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It Has Stayed With Me
One Learning for Justice staffer reflects on the harm she experienced when her educators ignored Black History Month—and calls on all educators to uplift the value in Black history all year.
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Teach MLK in Connection With the Attack on the U.S. Capitol
The same day a Black man and a Jewish man were voted into the U.S. Senate, a mob toting Confederate and Nazi flags attacked the U.S. Capitol. As you teach about Martin Luther King Jr. ahead of his birthday observation, acknowledge the link between the racism he resisted and the violence we witnessed at the Capitol. These resources will help foster related discussions within the context of U.S. history.
- The Problem With the “Disney Version of History”
- Teaching About King’s Radical Approach to Social Justice
- From MLK to #BlackLivesMatter: A Throughline for Young Students
