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Jozette Martinez

Jozette Martinez is a middle and high school business teacher in the heart of downtown Denver, Colorado, where she is an eighth-generation resident. She leads her eighth-grade AVID team and coaches her school’s Student Board of Education. She is also an adjunct professor in business and technology, a district trainer of teachers and a national teacher leader instructor through the Center for Teaching Quality, with a focus on social justice, equity and inclusion. She is a writer, guardian, sister, daughter and friend.
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Judgement of the Supreme Court of the United States in Plessy v. Ferguson

In the matter of Plessy v. Ferguson, the United States Supreme Court upheld practices that perpetuated Jim Crow segregation, declaring that “separate but equal” accommodations were legal. Nearly 60 years later, the Court overturned the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
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Mr. Justice Brown and Mr. Justice Harlan
Grade Level
9-12
Topic
Civil Rights Movement Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism
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Civics
History
Social Justice Domain
Justice Action
March 3, 2016
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Remarks by the President at Reception Commemorating the Enactment of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act

In this speech, President Obama celebrates legislation that provides legal protection from crimes based on gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation. In his remarks, Obama looks forward to further legislation that helps “the bells of freedom ring out a little louder.”
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Barack Obama
Grade Level
9-12
Topic
Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism
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Civics
History
Economics
Geography
Social Justice Domain
Justice Action
March 3, 2016