The Moment Archive

September 2, 2024

Growing Together: Building a Just Future

When we cultivate the values of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) in young children, we create steppingstones toward resisting hate and strengthening democracy. Growing Together: For Children and Families is LFJ’s new series, with learning activities, stories and book recommendations for children.

Exploring Identity and Commonalities

Conversations about commonalities across cultures can help children build empathy and understand identity and diversity.

Celebrating African and Indigenous Cultures

Conversations about African and Indigenous cultures are essential for learning about the history of our country and making connections with a broader world.

Connecting With Literature

Important points, learning activities and questions for reflecting on and discussing stories through the lens of literature as “mirrors, windows and sliding glass doors.”

August 27, 2024

Learning from the Civil Rights Movement: The 1963 March on Washington

This critical election year, remember that the right to vote was achieved through the struggles, risks and sacrifices of ordinary people. Learn from our history, vote and help to mobilize others in your community.

The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Contextualizing the 1963 March on Washington and the complex history of the struggle associated with it is important as we make connections to the ongoing movement for equality and justice.

Historical images from the Civil Rights Movement and current movement

Learning from the Civil Rights Movement

The resources in this series can help us learn from our history and examine today’s justice issues to answer the questions: “How can I make a difference?” “How can we make a difference together?”

The Civil Rights Movement: 10 Key Concepts

These 10 key concepts and main points encourage us to think critically about the complexities of history as we learn about and from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ’60s.

August 13, 2024

Introducing LFJ’s Community Justice Sites

LFJ is piloting our Community Justice Sites programming at the SPLC’s Road to 60 Summit in Mississippi. Our Community Justice Sites are Freedom Schools and Citizenship Schools for everyone. When we “learn for justice,” we center learning to inform our action for liberation and justice in our communities.

1964 Oxford Mississippi Summer of 64 for voter registration in the South (Steve Schapiro/Corbis via Getty Images)

Freedom Summer and Today’s Election Process

This overview of Freedom Summer 1964 connects to actions for strengthening democracy today.

Illustration of youth and adults planting a tree together

Introduction to Action Planning: Toolkit

This toolkit facilitates an introduction to action planning, offering a structure for planning individual or collective action for change.

Image of woman and child on the steps of the Supreme Court with a newspaper with headline about the Brown decision

Strategies of the Civil Rights Movement

This learning module examines the questions: How did people organize, and what strategies did they use in the Civil Rights Movement?

August 5, 2024

Inclusive Education for All Our Children

Justice. Equity. Diversity. Inclusivity. These are the foundational principles of a thriving, multiracial and inclusive democracy. Such a democracy is essential in building a more just future for all our children. And to build that future, we need inclusive education to develop understanding of these foundational principles.

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Tips for Advocating for Inclusive Education

Recommendations for parents, caregivers and community members to help you advocate for inclusive education that supports all our children.

Illustration of people gathering on top of and around large books.

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The Promise of Inclusive Education

Inclusive education builds critical thinking—the intellectual tools for reflection, continuous inquiry, constructive dialogue and the possibility of changing one’s perspective—and is an essential lever for democracy.

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Exclusion Is Unconstitutional

Acts of censorship in education perpetuated by a small group with concentrated power go against the principles outlined in the United States Constitution.

July 29, 2024

Building an Inclusive, Multiracial Democracy

This election season, we ground ourselves in supporting the work to increase power and capacity for a multiracial, inclusive democracy in the South and across our nation. In our Fall 2023 magazine, Angela Glover Blackwell, founder in residence of PolicyLink, and Margaret Huang, CEO and president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, shared their thoughts on the transformational possibilities of that democracy.

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Education Justice Now Archive

Growing Together: Building a Just Future

Exploring Identity and Commonalities

Celebrating African and Indigenous Cultures

Connecting With Literature

Learning from the Civil Rights Movement: The 1963 March on Washington

The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Learning from the Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement: 10 Key Concepts

Introducing LFJ’s Community Justice Sites

Freedom Summer and Today’s Election Process

Introduction to Action Planning: Toolkit

Strategies of the Civil Rights Movement

Inclusive Education for All Our Children

Tips for Advocating for Inclusive Education

The Promise of Inclusive Education

Exclusion Is Unconstitutional

Building an Inclusive, Multiracial Democracy

A Time of Transformation and Possibility

Paving the Way to a Vibrant Multiracial Democracy

Civics for Democracy

Education Justice Now Archive

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