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Building Black Institutions: Autonomy, Labor and HBCUs

Episode 8, Season 4 Historian Tera Hunter describes Black institution-building post-slavery and throughout the Jim Crow era, illustrating how Black workers reorganized labor to their advantage, despite virulent white

November 30, 2021

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Literature

Echoes

You can see, hear, feel, and taste the injustice, frustration, and naiveté experienced at this ladies' get together.

Pat Mora

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Class Immigration

July 3, 2014

publication

Engaging Colleagues

When educators feel like they are not alone in their belief that students deserve access to accurate and inclusive learning, they are more likely to persevere in their advocacy for teaching honest histories.

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Slavery Rights & Activism

November 21, 2023

film kit

An Outrage

This film takes viewers to the very communities where heinous acts of violence took place, offering a painful look back at lives lost to lynching and a critical look forward. (Available for streaming only)

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Rights & Activism

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

Geography

September 11, 2017

article

March 6, 2010

Remembering Bloody Sunday

On March 7, 1965, millions of Americans sat watching their television sets in horror. Grainy black-and-white news images from Selma, Ala., showed about 600 mostly African-American protesters trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were marching to the state capital, Montgomery, to win voting rights in the Jim Crow South.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

September 15, 2010

Cut Your Chances of Suspension: Don’t be Black

A new study proves what many already suspected: Your chances of getting suspended in middle school rise dramatically if you are black. The study, “Suspended Education: Urban Middle Schools in Crisis,” was published by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the home of Teaching Tolerance.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

article

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.

article

Issue 64, Spring 2020

Digging Deep Into the Social Justice Standards: Justice

Help students recognize both justice and injustice so they can celebrate justice and also call out injustice when they see it.

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Issue 57, Fall 2017

What Is the “Alt-Right”?

White nationalism has come out of the basement and entered the mainstream. Would you recognize it if it came to your classroom?

Topic

Immigration Rights & Activism

professional development

The Freedom Riders Video Transcript

This piece is to accompany The Freedom Riders video and lesson. In 1961, the Civil Rights Movement took another strategic turn. A small group of activists, both black and white, calling themselves the Freedom Riders, decided to travel by bus through the Deep South, where segregation in bus facilities wasn’t just the custom, it was the law, and where the simple act of boarding a bus was enough to put one’s life on the line.

April 5, 2011

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