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A Culture of Care
While wrapping up the school year, this teacher learned two powerful lessons from her students.
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Understanding the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March and Making Connections to Today
Opposition to equality is, unfortunately, not new to the history of the United States. Recognizing the relevance of history to today’s justice and civil rights movements is crucial for understanding and countering current pushbacks against democratic values. Analyzing the opposition to the Civil Rights Movement can help us to understand the exceptional strength of the ordinary people who were part of the movement. And recognizing that racism wore both institutional and individual faces can help us to understand the importance of the movement’s achievements and the work that remains.
- Hostile Opposition to the Civil Rights Movement
- Selma: From the Bridge to the Ballot
- History and the Power of Place
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Take It From Me: Auditory Processing Disorder in Class
This high school student with APD shares some classroom and teaching techniques that helped her succeed—and that can benefit all students.
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Frederick Douglass Describes Enslavers
In this specific passage, which comes from the book’s first chapter, Douglass describes his enslavers. The passage focuses on Douglass’s memory of his first encounter with the brutality of his enslavers.
January 6, 2018
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Lives of the Enslaved in Their Own Words
In the face of extreme punishment for enslaved people and breaking the law for whites, roughly 5 percent of the enslaved population learned to read and write. Letters like the ones written below show the lengths they would go to learn.
January 7, 2019
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Meet Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass made an amazing journey from slavery to freedom. Once free, Douglass committed his life to fighting for the freedom of others.
January 7, 2019
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La Linea
In their trek from Mexico to the U.S. border, this young group is reminded that dangers lurk beneath them and hang over their heads every day and every night.
July 7, 2014
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The Breadwinner
After spending months talking to women in Afghan refugee camps, Deborah Ellis penned this timely novel about life under Taliban rule. Living in Afghanistan with her family, Parvana is a rarity—a girl who can read and experiences life, even for just a few hours, outside the four walls of her home.
July 3, 2014
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Crazy Versus Eccentric
In this ironic cartoon, the same man is depicted twice—once with tattered clothing and unkept body hair as a poor man and a second time in a suit with a clean-cut image as a rich man. As a poor man, he's regarded as crazy, but as a rich man, he's eccentric.
July 2, 2014
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Hunger
In this cartoon, people of all sexes, ages, shapes and sizes are lined up outside the Gospel Mission, waiting for food. A mother in line remarks that they donated to this Mission just last year, inciting the feeling that circumstances can quickly change.
July 9, 2014