These activities ask students to engage with the question of what an equitable school calendar looks like and how to make their own school calendar more inclusive.

This lesson explores the debate about whether public schools, which typically close on major Christian and Jewish holidays, should also shutter for important celebrations in other faiths.

This lesson challenges students to analyze and to reflect on messages presented in songs — and to express their own views about important issues addressed in some songs.

This lesson will give students the chance to think about what these crucial concepts mean and to begin considering a relationship between community activism and community building.

This lesson series introduces students to four key figures in LGBTQ history who made incredible contributions to the civil rights movement: James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Pauli Murray and Bayard Rustin.

This lesson is part of The Role of Gay Men and Lesbians in the Civil Rights Movement series.

This lesson helps students learn more about different religions and discuss the importance of religion freedom.

This lesson challenges students to analyze and to reflect on messages presented in songs — and to express their own views about important issues addressed in some songs.

In this lesson, students will investigate “defenders of justice” who fought against racism and changed American attitudes. Their work made possible, years later, something that many doubted would ever happen: the election of an African American as President of the United States.