Lecia J. Brooks

Lecia J. Brooks is the director of outreach for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Pages authored by Lecia J. Brooks

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Sign Up Now for Tomorrow’s Mix It Up Day! News stories about preparations for Tuesday’s Mix It Up at Lunch Day began flooding in last week. Teachers, administrators and students have been...
Dear Mix It Up: “Where Will I Fit In?” Why should your school participate in Mix It Up at Lunch Day on Nov. 9? Let Kaitlyn Turinske, a just-graduated high school student from Hartland, Wis...
Congrats to This Year’s Mix It Up Model Schools! Over 3,000 schools across the country challenged social boundaries on national Mix It Up at Lunch Day last November. Some schools took it to the next...
Teaching Lessons of Tolerance Around the Civil Rights Memorial In 1987, Morris Dees was speaking to a classroom of children about the bravery of Beulah Mae Donald, a Mobile, Ala., woman who bankrupted the Klan...
Viva Dolores Huerta! Viva Chicago! I just returned from Chicago where SPLC’s Teaching Tolerance film, Viva La Causa, was shown to over 800 of our closest friends. Morris Dees,...
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How We Live Our Lives The great promise of the 1954 landmark U. S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education was that children would grow up together in...