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McCarthy: Enemy of the Negro People (excerpt, p. 14)

This journal article excerpt describes how the House Un-American Activities Committee tried to undermine the Civil Rights Movement by targeting some activists as communistic sympathizers. Eslanda Goode Robeson used her testimony as a platform to speak out against American hypocrisy and injustice.

Charles Allen Jr.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

July 6, 2022

article

April 30, 2015

Teaching While White

elementary teacher talking with students

These two educators argue that truly serving all students means confronting racism, privilege and injustice.

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

article

Issue 3, Fall 2022

Confronting Ableism on the Way to Justice

To build a society that advances the human rights of all people requires the social justice movement to be intentional in including intersecting identities and diverse equity struggles.

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Ability Rights & Activism

article

Issue 11, Spring 1997

Crucial Conversations

Study circles help students talk constructively about race.

Topic

Race & Ethnicity

article

Issue 30, Fall 2006

2-4-6-HATE

Cheerleader screaming daggers and darts at the opponent basketball team player

Across the nation, schools struggle to celebrate athletic spirit without sinking to cheers and chants steeped in intolerance.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

article

Issue 27, Spring 2005

Witness

What happens when the role of guest and substitute teachers is complicated through witnessing racism, sexism, prejudice or other mistreatment?

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

article

May 1, 2017

Let the Freedom Rides Roll Through Your Class

When many students think of buses and desegregation, their minds instantly go to Rosa Parks and the 1954 Montgomery Bus Boycott. But the larger civil rights fight over transportation took place seven years later with the Freedom Rides.

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

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Slavery as a Form of Racialized Social Control

How did racial hierarchy adapt and persist after Emancipation? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

October 13, 2014

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Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System

Racialized social control has adapted to race-neutral social and political norms in the form of mass incarceration. Criminalization stands in as a proxy for overt racism by limiting the rights and freedoms of a racially defined undercaste.

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

October 13, 2014

article

January 25, 2016

Recognizing and Addressing Colorism in Schools

This educator and researcher illustrates what colorism looks like in schools—and how to counter it.

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Bullying & Bias

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