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Black students everywhere made history as pioneers paving the way for racial integration in their hometowns.

Labor Day was created in 1882. Originally, it was intended to be a less controversial workers' day than May Day, with its Socialist origins. Today, however, much of this history is forgotten and Labor Day is often thought of as simply the official end to summer. Although around Labor Day is a really good time to consider the work that people actually do in a society, this lesson is relevant year around. 

Often we take aspects of the work world for granted. For example, that a CEO will be better paid than a construction worker.  Or that being a teacher is more important than is being a waiter.  These assumptions allow us to perpetuate a system that allows gross inequities in pay between professions, and designates some jobs as less important than others, no matter how much society depends on them.

Learn how schools can teach religious tolerance -- and stay within constitutional bounds.

"Everyone has to take responsibility and do whatever they can to avoid a nuclear war [even] contacting the US President."

Help your students understand the Employee Free Choice Act, a major change in labor law that is now being considered by Congress.

This lesson focuses on the different means that the Constitution provides for people to bring about change. While each of the methods the lesson presents worked in the Civil Rights movement, all three are currently being challenged in the marriage equality movement. Keep up to date on the ongoing struggles by doing Google news searches of marriage equality. Keep a class log of updates from the states where marriage equality is being challenged.

As your school begins to plan Mix It Up at Lunch Day this year, get off on the right foot by exploring the ways we are all similar and different.

Christine Sleeter and Carl Grant wrote this lesson to encourage students to explore policies and attitudes about Mexican and Mexican American laborers in the U.S. and develop informed personal perspectives of the United States-Mexico border and undocumented Mexican immigrants.

This year at Seth Johnson Elementary, in Montgomery, Ala., the fourth- and fifth-grade students will participate in the National Mix It Up Lunch Day on November 10th. In preparation of this day, we challenged fifth-graders to think about how they matter to the people around them – and to write essays titled “We All Matter.”

...Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience.
We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs...

This planning sheet can help educators design and implement service-learning projects that support prejudice reduction. Emphasis is placed on collaboration, direct service and advocacy.

These two early grades activities focus on musical explorations building on justice and inclusion themes.

In today's multicultural schools and classrooms, resolving conflict means being culturally aware.