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LGBT Teachers Need Allies
When LGBT teachers have to live in fear of being outed, their capacity to service students in an authentic way is diminished.
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The Straight Story
The editor of Teaching Tolerance reflects on governmental executions.
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What We're Reading
For rural schools, the growing use of technology can create new problems as it solves old ones.
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Ramadan
This picture book explains the Muslim holiday Ramadan by answering the 5 Ws: who, what, where, when and why.
July 2, 2014
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Supreme Court Narrowly Allows 1965 Voting Rights Act to Stand Transcript
This piece is to accompany African Americans Face and Fight Obstacles to Voting
November 4, 2011
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“I Was Born on September 11, 2001”
After a candid classroom discussion, this high school teacher marvels at the questions and concerns that educators like herself must confront at school.
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An Act to Authorize the Manumission of Slaves (1782)
This act shows the ways in which Virginia regulated manumitting (freeing) of enslaved people and the subsequent race-based laws for freedpeople.
January 5, 2018
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First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
Lincoln’s first inaugural address illustrates the centrality of slavery in southern states decision to secede after the 1860 election.
January 5, 2018
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Alice, The Negro
Recounting a selective portion of an enslaved woman’s life, this brief biography also serves as a reflection of what mainstream society deemed “worthy” during the early to mid-19th century. Precisely because Alice supposedly embodied characteristics that were both exceptional and ordinary, her story offers a useful lens to consider how slavery was understood in its time.
December 15, 2017
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From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, or, Fifteen Years in Slavery
In this excerpt, Robinson describes "the four classes of men" who played pivotal roles in the system of chattel slavery.
December 15, 2017