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Reading Together
How one group of parents created space for their children to learn, think and teach about social justice.
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Now-based Curriculum
Instead of discussing current events only on Tuesdays or only in response to traumatic events, let’s help students use the curriculum to understand and act against current injustices.
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Paddling Upstream
Catholic and Protestant youth in Northern Ireland embark on a brighter future.
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Judgement of the Supreme Court of the United States in Plessy v. Ferguson
In the matter of Plessy v. Ferguson, the United States Supreme Court upheld practices that perpetuated Jim Crow segregation, declaring that “separate but equal” accommodations were legal. Nearly 60 years later, the Court overturned the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
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Map from “Freedom and Slavery, and the Coveted Territories”
A map of the United States with shading to indicate slave states, free states and territories, with details such as the states’ representation in Congress and their number of enslaved people.
December 14, 2017
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Stand Up and Be Counted
An important date awaits in April, and it’s coming sooner than April 15.The Census Bureau has designated April 1 as "National Census Day," the date for mailing census forms to bureau offices. Households that don’t get their forms sent off by then will get a visit from a census taker.
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Putting It Into Words
Grade-level responses to the use of pejorative or bigoted terms, or benign terms used with a pejorative tone or manner.
July 31, 2012
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Toolkit for 'Be a Good Boy'
Story Corner is a student-directed feature in Teaching Tolerance magazine. In the current issue, we tell the story of the Tennessee House member who cast the deciding vote for women’s suffrage. Vocabulary lapel [luh-