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Finding a Voice: Musicians in Terezin Study Guide
The music created by prisoners of the Terezín concentration camp remains a symbol not only of creativity, but also of courage, resilience, and resistance.
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French Lawmakers Pass Bill Penalizing Genocide Denial
This week, the French legislature passes a bill criminalizing denial of recognized genocides, including the Armenian genocide.
Learn more about the difficult evolution of genocide as a concept, and the emergence of international protections against mass violence, in our resource book Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians.
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Not In Our Town: Class Actions
How do we learn from the past? From tragedy? From our own mistakes? Three towns. Three lessons learned. Three stories of student leaders and their communities standing together to stop hate.
Not in Our Town: Class Actions will premiere on PBS in February 2012. Narrated by Yul Kwon, the half-hour documentary will debut on Feb. 13, 2012 on PBS stations.
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Alumna Gabrielle Westbrook Puts MLK Legacy to Work at University
At the end of a Facing History civil rights trip, a leader challenged the young people studying the civil rights movement: “So, you know what they did,” he said. “What are you going to do?” Six years later, Gabrielle Westbrook has risen to the challenge..
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Women in the Civil Rights Movement: New Film Puts Little Rock's Daisy Bates in Spotlight
Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock premieres February 2 on PBS’ Independent Lens. An interview with filmmaker Sharon La Cruise recounts her seven year effort to pay tribute to Bates and a generation of women who struggled for civil rights
