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Primary sources can help students explore just how controversial voting rights were in the century preceding the Act.

The Civil Rights Act outlawed hiring discrimination, segregated public schools and public spaces and discriminatory voter registration policies, paving the way for future civil rights legislation.

‘Freedom Summer,’ an American Experience film, highlights an overlooked but essential period in the civil rights movement.

How much can teachers disclose about their personal religious and nonreligious beliefs to students?

Stories from the past, like those of Freedom Summer, serve to remind us that change happens when everyday people create it.

Educators can’t display religious symbols in public schools, but that does not mean religious symbols can never appear in the classroom. So when is it OK?

Maya Angelou was an activist up until the very end of her life: visible, accessible, present to the people to whom her work and her message of hope meant the most.

Do moments of silence and the Pledge of Allegiance infringe on students’ rights? Tanenbaum and Teaching Tolerance revisit this and other important questions through a set of blog posts based on our ongoing webinar series Religious Diversity in the Classroom.

Think your students are too young to discuss differing abilities? Think again.

These student activists knew their community’s issues were relevant worldwide—so they made their voices heard globally.