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Afro-Latina

In this spoken word piece, Elizabeth Acevedo speaks of her Afro-Latina heritage, recounting how she first rejected her roots and then learned to embrace them.

Elizabeth Acevedo

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Class Immigration Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

History

Geography

September 28, 2018

article

March 17, 2021

After Atlanta: Teaching About Asian American Identity and History

Person writing notes while looking at computer

One LFJ award winner shares the conversation she started with students the day after the attacks in Atlanta and recommends resources anyone can use to teach about Asian American history and identity.

Topic

Race & Ethnicity

article

June 25, 2015

After the Flag Comes Down

There’s growing momentum to take down Confederate flags, but our work to denounce systemic racism cannot stop at symbolic markers.

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

article

Issue 40, Fall 2011

This piece is to accompany James Loewen's feature story " Getting the Civil War Right." Recently I spent two years at the Smithsonian Institution surveying 12 popular American history textbooks, learning how teachers use

Topic

Race & Ethnicity

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Informational

Against the Current

Native American activists use civil disobedience and consensus-building to resolve an old dispute over natural resources.

Learning for Justice Staff

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Religion Class

Subject

History

Economics

Geography

August 7, 2017

article

March 2, 2015

Agree to (Respectfully) Disagree

How to teach students to respectfully engage with peers of differing religious belief systems.

Topic

Religion

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Aimee Young

Aimee Young teaches in rural Ohio. She has studied in Poland and Israel, was awarded a teaching fellowship through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and earned the prestigious DisneyHAND American Teacher Award, given to just 38 teachers in the nation in 2004.

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Informational

Alabama Literacy Test (c. 1965)

A literacy test from Alabama (c. 1965) asks complex questions about civics to suppress voter registration and demonstrates the range of questions available to officials.

State of Alabama

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

July 7, 2022

article

June 13, 2011

Alabama’s Immigration Law: The New Jim Crow

Alabama’s new law—with provisions against hiring, harboring or transporting undocumented immigrants—is bad enough for adults. But it is potentially disastrous for kids.

Topic

Immigration

lesson

The Alcatraz Proclamation: A Primary Document Activity

On November 20, 1969, Alcatraz island became the unlikely stage for a landmark event in the Native American rights movement.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Race & Ethnicity

July 6, 2009

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