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Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca has taught high school social studies since 2000. Based in Portland, Oregon, she is on the editorial board of Rethinking Schools and works full time for the Zinn Education Project as an organizer and writer. She has written lessons and/or textbook critiques on McCarthyism, voting rights, Red Summer, reparations, redlining (in consultation with Richard Rothstein), deportations, COINTELPRO, climate justice and the Cold War, and she contributed to a series of lessons for How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith. In addition to Learning for Justice and Rethinking Schools, her work
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A Personal Mission: Sammy Younge Jr.

Sammy Y.
Although raised in a prosperous and prestigious African-American home in Tuskegee, Ala., Sammy Younge found himself drawn most to the civil rights movement. While the cause cost him his life, his actions and determination helped to transform this Southern city.
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Learning for Justice Staff
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6-8 9-12
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Civil Rights Movement Class
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History
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Identity Diversity Justice Action
July 31, 2018
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Twenty States Still Use the Paddle

In 1964, my third-grade teacher relied mainly on an air of motherly authority to maintain control over her classroom of more than 50 8-year-olds. But when pushed, she warned darkly of deploying her spanking machine.