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Issue 60, Fall 2018

A Museum. A Memorial. A Message.

Looking up at part of the Lynching Memorial

Montgomery, Alabama, is home to two new attractions focused on the history of racial terror. Share the lessons of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice with your students.

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Literature

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

The novel's main character, Joey, is introduced in this excerpt. Joey is full of spunk, but he also has trouble focusing and controlling all of his urges—which sometimes leads him to make bad choices.

Jack Gantos

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Topic

Ability

July 5, 2014

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Informational

Thomas H.

Thomas was born into slavery and lived a harsh life, but he was finally able to escape and reunite with his family.

Lauryn Mascareñaz

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Topic

Slavery

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History

January 8, 2019

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Literature

Death or Liberty

One stormy night Gabriel Prosser visits Rachel’s house to ask her mother to sew a flag for his rebellion.

Jarah Botello

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

February 19, 2020

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Multimedia

Curbing floods and restoring a sense of community

“English Avenue, an historic African-American neighborhood with an illustrious past, sits at the bottom of Atlanta’s water runoff. Blighted by regular flooding, mass vacancies, unemployment, and impoverishment, English Avenue finds hope in a home-grown response from its youth. Longtime resident MacKenzie Bass — along with fellow members of Street Smart — helped construct a park that curbs the excess water, creates a gathering place, and seeks to reclaim English Avenue’s identity.”

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

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History

Geography

June 26, 2019

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Music Reconstructed: Lara Downes’ Classical Perspective on Jim Crow

Installment 4 From concertos to operas, Black composers captured the changes and challenges facing African Americans during Jim Crow. Renowned classical pianist Lara Downes is bringing new appreciation to the works of

April 26, 2022

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Literature

We Live By What We See at Night

In this poem, the speaker addresses his father, recalling for him the lush Puerto Rican landscape that he grew up in. Now, this green can be seen only in his father's dreams.

Martin Espada

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Topic

Immigration

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Geography

July 3, 2014

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Sikh Eyechart for America

Text in the shape of an eye chart. Text starts large at the top and gets smaller. The last line reads, "I am a sikh walking the path of compassion hoping to find the light in our hearts that binds us all" in tiny letters. The cartoon's caption reads, "You must have perfect eyesight to be able to read the last line."

This cartoon eye chart tests for perfect vision, which sees beyond stereotypes and bias and encourages a lens of compassion.

Vishavjit Singh

Grade Level

K-2 3-5 6-8 9-12

Topic

Religion

November 18, 2014

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August 16, 2018

How Can We Build Anti-Racist White Educators?

Group of teachers in discussion and seated in a circle

One teacher reflects on what he and other white educators need to understand as they work to build anti-racist practices and identities.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

Be Your Own Historian

W.E.B. Dubois, Blanche Bruce, Frederick Douglas and Hiram Rhodes Revels

Dr. Timothy McCarthy talks through the history of Reconstruction and why it’s more important than ever to get it right.

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