Nonviolence
Nonviolence
Peaceful resistance to oppression or aggression.
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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 |
August 13, 2009 | |
| Congressman John Lewis Describes Sit-Ins | Video Clip | June 26, 2008 |
| Congressman John Lewis Speaks about Nonviolence | Video Clip | June 26, 2008 |
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Democracy in Action: A study guide to accompany the film "Freedom Riders"
Developed in partnership with PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, the guide Democracy in Action supports educators and students in their use of the documentary Freedom Riders. This film tells the powerful story of the Freedom Riders taking brave and decided actions to dismantle the structures of discrimination—specifically segregated interstate bus travel—through nonviolence. |
Publication | March 2, 2011 |
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Foiled Bomb Plot at NYC Synagogues
Last
week four men were arrested for planning to blow up two Bronx
synagogues as well as purchasing missiles which they hoped to fire at U.S.
Military planes. The F.B.I. have been following the case since June 2008. |
Facing Today | May 27, 2009 |
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Freedom Riders 120 minutes |
Library Resource | April 27, 2011 |
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Hanukkah Has Special Significance in Montana A recent New York Times article reports that even though flourishing Jewish populations lived in the mining towns of Montana in the 19th century and had a large enough presence to build a temple in 1891 with the capacity to seat 500 people, the Jewish population has mostly moved out of state to bigger cities. |
Facing Today | December 9, 2009 |
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Holocaust-denial Groups on Facebook
CNN reports that the
popular social networking website Facebook has found itself in the middle of a
controversy about free speech. Since last year, Brian Cuban, a Texas lawyer, has been
campaigning to get Facebook to remove Holocaust denial groups that have been
using the website to organize. |
Facing Today | May 13, 2009 |
| Mother Caroline Students Spread the Peace | Video Clip | January 7, 2011 |
| NIOS: "Not in our School" Next Steps: Projects and Assignments | Lesson Idea | March 3, 2011 |
