- What Responsibilities Accompany Our Rights? [1]
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This lesson looks at an important question students will face as citizens: What responsibilities accompany our basic rights? Overview The lesson begins with a class discussion ... - Brown v. Board: An American Legacy [2]
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Explore the history of school segregation, the Brown case and its relevance in the ongoing struggle for school equity. The Teaching Tolerance magazine article An American ... - Brown v. Board: General Discussion Questions [3]
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Discuss the impact of Brown v. Board and the current state of segregation using articles from Teaching Tolerance magazine's special anniversary section. Explore ... - Brown v. Board: What It Means Today [4]
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Examine the impact of Brown v. Board and the state of school segregation today using interviews with 14 Americans from Teaching Tolerance magazine. Delve more deeply into the ... - Brown v. Board: Where are We Now? [5]
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American schools are resegregating. What's happening in your community? "Where Are We Now?" is an essay from Harvard's Civil Rights Project that reminds us ... - Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement [6]
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Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. Beneath the surface of many landmark Supreme Court decisions, including Gayle v. Browder , are fascinating stories about everyday ... - 'And Maybe I Can Change That Too' [7]
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A high school teacher helps his students challenge their own racist beliefs. One of the greatest challenges I faced this past year was trying to find a way to effectively break down ... - Examining Identity and Assimilation [8]
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Examine identity and assimilation with an activity that asks the essential question: Was there ever a part of your identity you had to hide? In the essay, "Magic Carpet", ... - Problems with Christmas Curriculum [9]
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School activities surrounding Christmas can have unintentional negative consequences like reinforcing commercialism, focusing on "good" and "bad" behavior and isolating students who ... - Facing the 'N Word' [10]
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Can racial language in literature be an effective teaching tool? Sometimes teachers can be torn between the desire to teach good literature and the fear of offending students, ... - Going to Bat for Girls Activity [11]
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In celebration of Title IX's anniversary, we highlight one family's struggle to realize the promise of equality. Materials " Going to Bat for Girls" ... - Family Ties and Fabric Tales [12]
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Exploring family roots and immigration. Lesson Overview After exposure to relevant literature in class, students will research their family history by interviewing their ... - Critical Viewer Activity [13]
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Help your students take a critical view of advertising. The following activities were adapted with permission from the GO GIRLS! curriculum, produced by the National Eating ... - Freedom's Main Line [14]
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Learn how activists in Louisville, Kentucky successfully campaigned against segregated streetcars in 1870-71. Framework In 1865, four million newly emancipated slaves quickly ... - Then and Now: Tolerance as a Casualty of War [15]
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This activity helps students understand the injustice and dangers of scapegoating an entire group of people during a national crisis. Some lawmakers and members of the media have ... - Sexism: From Identification to Activism [16]
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Students will identify ways in which sexism manifests in personal and institutional beliefs, behaviors, use of language and policies. Use this lesson to develop plans of action against bias. ... - Activity for Home Was a Horse Stall [17]
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Ways to use " Home was a Horse Stall " in the classroom 1942: A young Japanese American woman ponders the meaning of freedom behind barbed wire... Just before ... - Peace Be Upon You [18]
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Explore the separation of church and state with regards to school prayer and religious tolerance. "Prayer in school" is one of the most hotly debated issues in this ... - Bella Abzug [19]
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"You can't continue to have a world without equal participation of men and women. That's my central thesis." Bella's Story Bella Abzug, who died on ... - Hanan Ashrawi [20]
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"I am not a politician by choice. Instead I try to pursue the objective of institution building, an essential component of the reconstruction of our nation." ... - Aung San Suu Kyi [21]
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"One must ask, 'Are you doing everything you can?' and I think if the answer is try 'Yes,' then you fell neither hopeless nor despairing." ... - Ela Bhat [22]
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"I realized that although eighty percent of women in India are economically active, they are outside the purview of legislation." Ela's Story ... - Peace Bikunda [23]
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"It started with five women, then 15, then 80, then 150. When it reached these numbers, I realized I had to do something for these women." Timeline: Rwanda ... - Wangari Maathai [24]
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"The myth of male superiority can only be demolished with shining examples of female achievement against which nobody could argue intelligently." Timeline: Kenya ... - Graça Machel [25]
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"We Africans may be impoverished, but we are not poor. ... We can learn things from others, but we also have a lot to offer the world." Timeline: Mozambique ... - Madres de Plaza de Mayo [26]
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"What remains in the end is a deep longing for justice. . .We want you all to remember what happened to our children so that it never happens again." Timeline: ... - Rigoberta Menchú [27]
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"Now I would like to see Guatemala at peace, with indigenous and nonindigenous people living side by side." Timeline: Guatemala 1960 A failed ... - Mary Robinson [28]
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"We turn away so often. ... Each one of us has an individual responsibility to inform ourselves. To care. To respond." Timeline: Human Rights Documents ... - Maj Britt Theorin [29]
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"Everyone has to take responsibility and do whatever they can to avoid a nuclear war [even] contacting the US President." Maj's Story Born in ... - Women Making Change, Women Forging Hope [30]
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Teaching Tolerance teamed with Bread and Roses, the cultural arm of local 1199, the National Health & Human Service Employees Union of the AFL-CIO to present the International Women of Hope Project. ...
