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Public School Integration Still ‘Best Goal’
When my daughter pulls hard on the heavy glass doors of the Martin Luther King Jr. Laboratory School and races upstairs into her fifth-grade classroom, she is living my dream.
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Jimmie Lee Jackson
This essay details Jimmie Lee Jackson’s involvement in the voting rights movement and his violent death at the hands of Alabama state troopers.
March 10, 2016
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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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Civil Rights Is All About Fairness
Use first-graders’ commitment to fairness to help them connect with the modern civil rights movement.
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Toolkit for "Browder v. Gayle"
Although the Montgomery Bus Boycott was successful in galvanizing the civil rights movement and promoting awareness of the injustice of segregated busing, Browder v. Gayle provided the legal basis for ending transportation segregation in Alabama. Despite its importance, the Browder v. Gayle case remains relatively untaught civil rights history.
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Toolkit for “Lessons of 1964: The Movement Continues”
1964 included a number of important civil rights events critical to the ongoing march for racial equality and justice. These resources can help take students back to this important year. 1964 Civil Rights Milestone
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Trivia and Civil Rights History
An after-school teacher uses trivia to get her elementary students thinking about the world around them—including civil rights history.
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, & Cynthia Wesley
This essay explores the deadly Ku Klux Klan attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. It details where and why the four victims—Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley—were in the basement of the church on that morning, and summarizes the sentiments expressed across the country following their deaths.
March 2, 2016
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We Must Do Our Part for a Just Future
A Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board member reflects on a recent gathering in Montgomery, Ala.