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Student Voices: Raghad and Rahaf Barcudi
Rahaf is a Syrian immigrant who compares her life in Syria to her new life in the U.S.
September 28, 2018
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Bill Clinton apologizes for Tuskegee Experiment
This speech, delivered by then-President Bill Clinton, recognized and apologized for the study conducted by the United States government on more than 500 unknowing African-American soldiers at Tuskegee for untreated syphilis.
June 18, 2019
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Where Scholars Disagree: How SCOTUS Influenced the Civil Rights Movement
Scholars are divided on the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the civil rights movement. This blogger, a history teacher, explains why this debate is a valuable lesson.
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Viola Liuzzo
This essay highlights Viola Liuzzo’s involvement in the civil rights movement and her tragic murder while shuttling marchers between Montgomery and Selma, Alabama.
March 10, 2016
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The Skin I'm In (Chapter 4)
Maleeka gets made fun of at school about her clothes, her grades, even the color of her skin. In this chapter, one of her teachers, with white blotches on her face, shows how she's been able to accept the skin she's in.
July 3, 2014
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To See My Students As Grains of Sand
Every school year, my incoming students receive a welcome letter. Included in their packet is something a little different: a snack-sized baggie of sand. One student may receive some black volcanic sand from Japan; another gets green sand from Hawaii; still another receives the silky sand from Florida’s west coast; while another may get the pink sand found on Bermuda’s pristine beaches.
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Dorothy Height: Fighting for Rights on Two Fronts
On August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington, Dorothy Height sat on the speakers’ platform and listened to Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech. She had helped organize the rally that brought about 250,000 people to the National Mall. In fact, she’d been in the forefront of the civil right struggle for decades as the president of the National Council of Negro Women.
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Toolkit for "It’s Report Card Time—and I Despise It"
This teacher dreads reducing her students to a few words on a progress report. So what would she rather tell them instead?
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A Historic Election
Last week, the first Black, Asian American woman was elected vice president. We hope these resources will help you contextualize this historic moment for all students.
- Madam Vice President Is a Woman of Color
- Teaching at the Intersections
- More Than a Name: Teaching Historic Firsts