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To Fulfill These Rights

Lyndon B. Johnson delivered this commencement address to Howard University graduating students in 1965. Johnson recognizes the plight of African Americans and describes the kind of civil rights progress he would like to see as president.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

July 7, 2014

article

Issue 50, Summer 2015

Learning From the Inside

A teacher watches his students pass him in the hallways of a youth correctional facility

Educators working in locked facilities have a lot to offer—to their students and to their public-school colleagues.

Topic

Ability

article

January 24, 2017

Helping Students Develop Empathy Instead of Sympathy

When this literature teacher completes a book with her class and hears a student say, “Reading this makes me happy I am an American,” she flips the script.

article

July 28, 2014

Reading and Writing to Learn About Activism

Reading and writing about the work of activists helped this teacher and her students realize that they can make social change by starting small.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

September 19, 2014

The Activist Award Essay

To close an English unit on social activism, this teacher had her students reflect by recognizing and writing about the activist potential in their classmates.

Topic

Rights & Activism

student task

Do Something

Spotlight on Change Agents

Students investigate, interview and profile a person working for equity and social change. The person can work on the local, national or international level, with an organization or as an individual. The compiled profiles will form a resource for other students in the future.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

July 13, 2014

article

Issue 54, Fall 2016

Toolkit for "Rock the Vote"

This toolkit for “Rock the Vote” lists 12 practical ways teachers and their students can rock the vote at school.

article

Issue 49, Spring 2015

Toolkit for Behind the Shield

Critical literacy is just as important for visual texts, such as cartoons, as it is for the written word. This toolkit will help your students read Sikhtoons while thinking about the social justice implications.

professional development

Teaching 'The New Jim Crow'

Teaching Tolerance teamed up with Michelle Alexander—author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness—to offer educators two FREE webinars exploring mass incarceration in the United States and how to teach about it.

September 23, 2014

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Steffany Sorensen Moyer

Steffany Sorensen Moyer is the program coordinator at Learning for Justice. Prior to joining LFJ, she worked at a public library for several years, and is currently completing her master’s degree in secondary education from Auburn University Montgomery.