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Issue 51, Fall 2015

A Message From Our Director

Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello honors Julian Bond, a champion for voting rights.

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November 18, 2014

How Does the TT Community Teach Thanksgiving?

As you consider addressing Thanksgiving in your classroom, the approaches of the educators in our community offer great places to start.

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September 3, 2010

Interpreting Visuals: Rural America

Web Exclusive activities for What is Rural America? (page 28-31) from Teaching Tolerance No. 38.

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July 7, 2009

Roots of Cooperation

Historical and contemporary Japanese-Mexican collaboration leads to a theatrical performance. Replicate the play at your school.

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March 28, 2013

Civil Rights Is All About Fairness

Use first-graders’ commitment to fairness to help them connect with the modern civil rights movement.

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Rights & Activism

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Connecting Slavery With the Civil Rights Movement

Episode 8, Season 3 To fully understand the United States today, we have to comprehend the central role that slavery played in our nation’s past. That legacy is also the foundation for understanding the civil rights

November 24, 2020

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Jim Crow: Yesterday and Today

Episode 1, Season 4 This season, we’re examining the century between the Civil War and the modern Civil Rights Movement to understand how systemic racism and slavery persisted and evolved after emancipation—and how Black

August 25, 2021

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Marvin Lynn

Marvin Lynn is Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Maryland at College Park where he founded and currently heads a graduate program in Minority & Urban Education. Having published in several well-respected academic journals, including Teachers College Record, Educational Theory, Qualitative Studies in Education, Equity & Excellence in Education, Urban Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory & Review of Research in Education, he has emerged as one of the leaders of the field of critical race studies in education. He wrote a very popular

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July 7, 2009

Brown v. Board: Where are We Now?

American schools are resegregating. What's happening in your community?

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The Harlem Renaissance: Restructuring, Rebirth and Reckoning

Episode 12, Season 4 During the Harlem Renaissance, more Black artists than ever before were asking key questions about the role of art in society. Oftentimes the Harlem Renaissance is misconstrued as a discrete moment

February 16, 2022

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