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Religious Freedom and LGBT Equality

Join us and special guest David Dinielli, Deputy Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's LGBT Rights Project, for this important conversation about religious freedom and the advancement of LGBT rights.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

June 17, 2016

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Multimedia

Oh Freedom

This pairing of the slideshow and song displays the resilience and dedication of civil rights marchers as they marched for freedom.

Author Unknown, Performed by the Golden Gospel Singers

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Slavery Race & Ethnicity

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

July 18, 2022

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Informational

Freedom Primer No. 1: The Convention Challenge and the Freedom Vote

This pamphlet from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) explains their unsuccessful 1964 Democratic National Convention challenge in Atlantic City and the MFDP’s plans moving forward from the convention.

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Race & Ethnicity

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

July 18, 2022

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Informational

Freedom Riders

The freedom riders, black and white, joined together to effect change. Traveling across the South while enduring ridicule and pain, they helped ensure that doors were open to all people, regardless of skin color.

Rhonda Brownstein

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

July 5, 2014

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Informational

1961: The Freedom Riders

The Freedom Riders looked to invoke federal action and gain national attention as they traveled on interstate bus lines across the South seeking service at white-only waiting rooms and lunch counters.

Merrill Perlman

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Geography

July 7, 2014

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The First Amendment and Freedom of Religion

In this lesson, students will use the case of Park51’s Islamic Cultural Center as a starting point for a discussion about whether religious freedom is absolute and if religious freedom requires respect for other religions.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Religion

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

Civics

ELL / ESL

November 22, 2010

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Literature

Autographs for Freedom

An anti-slavery poem by Harriet Beecher Stowe from 1852.

“Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thirty-five other Eminent Writers.”

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

December 13, 2017

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Issue 21, Spring 2002

Is Freedom Safe?

A First Amendment project challenges schools to take liberties seriously.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Informational

Freedom School Data

This 1964 report was issued by the Council of Federated Organizations in the midst of Freedom Summer to describe their Freedom Schools project. It demonstrates the breadth of the project and the enthusiasm about its potential.

Council of Federated Organizations

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

July 6, 2022

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Informational

Nat Turner, Freedom Fighter

Nat Turner was an American freedom fighter who led one of history’s most successful revolts by enslaved people in Southampton County, VA.

Dorothy H. Price

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

January 8, 2019

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