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Forgetting Isn't Healing
Jouranlist Sonari Glinton connects Elie Wiesel’s teachings on bearing witness to his own experiences as a black man in the United States.
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France Bans the Veil in Public Schools
Investigate the law banning headscarves in French schools and explore how people reacted to the legislation.
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Freedmen's Bureau Agent Reports on Progress in Education
This is an excerpt from a January 1866 Freedmen’s Bureau report on the "wonderful state" of education for freedpeople in the South, written by Freedmen’s Bureau inspector John W. Alvord.
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Freedpeople Protest the Loss of Their Land
In January 1865, General Sherman acted on the testimony of the freedpeople of Savannah, Georgia (see the document “Savannah Freedpeople Express Their Aspirations for Freedom,” Handout 3.2), by issuing Special Field Order 15. The field order divided up land abandoned by Southern planters along the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida and gave it to freedpeople in 40-acre plots.
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From Sympathy to Action
Journalist Nicholas D. Kristof describes the challenges of motivating people to take action. Read his assessment and consider why some people choose to act and others remain bystanders.
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Growing Up with Racism
In a letter to her daughter, Lisa Delpit reflects on how racism has shaped her worldview and her hopes and fears for her child.
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Hands Up, Don't Shoot! Built on a Lie
Washington Post journalist Jonathan Capehart documents how difficult it is, for journalists and consumers of news, to face a narrative that contradicts what we believe.
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Harrison Bergeron
Author Kurt Vonnegut writes about a future where everyone is finally equal. Consider ideas of membership, equality, and difference with this short, science fiction story.
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Hatred Poem
Wislawa Szymborska, a Polish poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, describes hatred in a poem.
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Hope Frye's Testimony on Child Migrant Detention
Immigration lawyer Hope Frye describes the conditions at child migrant detention centers in her congressional hearing testimony.
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How Much Democracy Do We Want?
Eleanor Roosevelt writes about the importance of equal opportunities and economic security for the strength of a democracy.
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