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"My Country 'Tis of Thee" Excerpt “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” (excerpted from Choosing to Participate) Part 1: Eleanor Roosevelt’s dilemma In 1939 world famous black opera singer Marian Anderson planned to perform in Washington, DC as part of her American tour. Organizers of the event knew that the only theater in the city large enough to hold the expected audience would be Constitution Hall.Three years earlier, Anderson was the first black artist to perform at the White House when she sang at the request of the first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. |
Supporting material for resources | September 21, 2009 |
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"Not in Our Town" Excerpt “Not in Our Town” (excerpted from “Not in Our Town,” Choosing to Participate Study Guide) Resistance to social change is often expressed through hatred and violence. How a community responds to intolerance is one measure of its citizens’ commitment to democracy. During the early 1990s, hate groups in Billings, Montana organized a wave of racist and antisemitic violence. |
Supporting material for resources | September 21, 2009 |
| Armenian Genocide Lesson Seven: Nation Building | Lesson Plan | March 19, 2008 |
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Bush: US Should Have Bombed Auschwitz (Associated Press, January 11, 2008) After visiting Israel's Holocaust Memorial, President Bush remarked that the US should have taken more aggressive action during WWII to destroy Nazi death camps. His thoughts are explained in the article, "Bush: US Should Have Bombed Auschwitz. |
Facing Today | March 27, 2008 |
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California Apologizes to Chinese Americans On July 17, California passed a bill officially apologizing for discriminatory legislation that denied Chinese immigrants the right to own property, marry whites, or work in the public sector. |
Facing Today | August 5, 2009 |
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Civil Rights Protesters Offered Pardon for 1963 Birmingham Arrests On May 2nd, 1963, over a thousand black children in Birmingham, Alabama took part in a nonviolent protest against racial segregation now known as the “Children’s Crusade.” The children skipped school that day and marched together, two-by-two, singing songs of freedom. The police confronted the children wielding clubs and fire houses, and set dogs on them. Hundreds of children were arrested, many taken to jail in school buses. Frank James recounts this story in his Facing Today |
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Congress Extends Hate Crime Protections Congress voted on October 22 to extend federal protection to people who are physically attacked because of their “gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability” by passing the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. |
Facing Today | October 26, 2009 |
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Crossing Racial Lines: Meeting Friends They Never Had Fifty years after they graduated high school, the formerly segregated classes of 1959 in Macon, Georgia gathered together. CNN.com reports “they returned for a one-of-a-kind 50th high school gathering. |
Facing Today | November 17, 2009 |
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Docu "Traces" Painful Portrait of Slave-Trade Legacy In the documentary, "Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North," Katrina Browne traces her roots to the largest slave traders in the US, the DeWolfe family. The article, "Docu ‘Traces' painful portrait of slave-trade legacy," reviews this film and stresses the importance of acknowledging this history. |
Facing Today | March 13, 2008 |
| Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985 | Unit | February 24, 2008 |
