On September 26, 1993, three white men entered the African Methodist Episcopal Wayman Chapel and stood against the back wall with arms folded. They had come to intimidate the predominantly African American congregation, not to pray. When members of other congregations heard about the incident, they began to attend services at the church.
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What America Meant
Public letter to the Sharps' Unitarian supporters describing the beginning of the children's rescue, written by Martha's colleague Helen Lowrie, November 23, 1940.
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What Do We Do with a Difference? Book Cover
The cover for the Facing History and Ourselves publication, "What Do We Do with a Difference? France and the Debate over Headscarves in Schools," which discusses the French educational philosophy of secularism and immigrant integration, the surge of fundamental Islam, and how these facets have led to a controversy over wearing headscarves in public schools.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
What Has Been Done, Has Been Done
Ngaujah stands on the hillside above Freetown, where he has been able to build a house of zinc metal on a small piece of land given to him by the government. He does not plan to return to Kono, the district where he was born and grew up (and where he was captured by rebels), because he believes that there are better opportunities for him and his family in Freetown, the nation’s capital. “What has been done, has been done,” he says.
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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
What If It Were My Family?
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After a cinderblock was hurled through Isaac Schnitzer’s bedroom window in December of 1993, a police officer advised the Schnitzers to take down their Chanukah decorations. Tammie Schnitzer wondered: "But how do you explain that to a child?"
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Genocide & Mass Violence
What Is Reconciliation?
Senator Murray Sinclair, chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, discusses what it means to work toward reconciliation in Canada.
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What Kind of Asian Are You?
This short video satirizes the way we sometimes rely on stereotypes about race, ethnicity, and nationality to make assumptions about each other.
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Bullying & Ostracism
What are the best strategies to combat bullying?
The following four video clips discuss some strategies for combatting bullying.
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What if You Could Control Memory: Writing The Giver
Lois Lowry explains her inspiration for writing The Giver.
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Global Immigration
What's Your Story?: Facing History Students Give Voice to Immigration Experience in Documentary Films
Students, though they often study immigration in school, rarely get the opportunity to share their own stories of immigration – or to do so on film.
So a Facing History and Ourselves teacher and a filmmaker set out to change that.
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When Does "Us" Turn against "Them"?: Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses why people categorize the world to make meaning of it.
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Race in US History
When History Failed to Turn
Carol Anderson reflects on once vibrant neighborhoods and why they became places of poverty and crime. Lack of equal educational opportunities despite the Brown v. Board decision left people poorly prepared to face a changing economy.
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