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Teaching Tolerance Interview With John Lewis

In the graphic novel March, Congressman John Lewis documents his experiences as a young civil rights activist. Hear him describe his first arrest employing a nonviolent resistance strategy, as captured in the book.

John Lewis

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

June 20, 2016

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April 8, 2010

Time to Bury the “Lost Cause”

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has declared April Confederate History Month. His original seven-paragraph proclamation was full of paeans to grey-clad heroes but nowhere mentioned the agonies of slavery. This understandably offended African Americans, and McDonnell spent a day or so getting beat up in the media.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

November 28, 2016

The Students Have Spoken

Last week, we posed a question to students via their teachers: What advice would you give to the new president? Their thoughtful responses blew us away.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

May 1, 2017

Let the Freedom Rides Roll Through Your Class

When many students think of buses and desegregation, their minds instantly go to Rosa Parks and the 1954 Montgomery Bus Boycott. But the larger civil rights fight over transportation took place seven years later with the Freedom Rides.

Topic

Rights & Activism

the moment

Celebrate Juneteenth With a Commitment to Disrupt the Continuum of Hard History

Learning for Justice is relaunching the Teaching Hard History podcast series with host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., to resist current efforts to erase and alter our nation’s history. As we celebrate Juneteenth, we uplift liberation and Black joy and culture. And we commit to learning and teaching the hard history that is foundational to the United States and the ongoing movement for freedom and equality.

Teaching Hard History Podcast Series
Slavery and the Civil War, Part 1
Teaching Hard History: American Slavery |Key Concepts Videos

June 18, 2025

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An Angry Black Woman on the Subject of the Angry White Man

Jordan's poem takes on an sarcastic tone as she describes the duties, punishments, emotions and false promises endured by African Americans since slavery in response to Bill Clinton's description of affirmative action as "a psychologically difficult time for the so-called angry White man."

June Jordan

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

Subject

History

Economics

July 7, 2014

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Issue 9, Spring 1996

Class Action

Students learn rights and responsibilities through law-related education.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

August 23, 2018

Supporting Student-led Voter Registration Drives

Here are a few tips for supporting students as they register voters.

Topic

Rights & Activism

lesson

STEM by the Numbers

In this lesson, students use data to analyze the participation of white, black, Asian and Hispanic men and women in STEM careers as compared with their participation in the general workforce. They then discuss the possible reasons identity groups are unequally represented in STEM careers.

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

Math & Technology

Science & Health

April 19, 2016

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October 1, 2018

Unmaking “Hispanic”: Teaching the Creation of Hispanic Identity

“Hispanic” heritage includes a diverse range of cultures, nationalities, histories and identities.

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