Learn about the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s with this historical overview.
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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
Bertha Pappenheim, Letter on Antisemitism (1923)
Bertha Pappenheim recounts the antisemitic abuse that she witnessed in Germany in 1923.
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Holocaust
Betraying the Youth
Former Nazi youth member Alfons Heck reflects on coming to terms with Germany’s role and his own part in the Holocaust.
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Between Peace and War
Consider why some Europeans changed their anti-war stance when World War I officially began, and why others like conscientious objectors continued to oppose the war.
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Justice & Human Rights
Beyond National Sovereignty: How to Protect Citizens From Their Own Government
Learn about some of the challenges delegates faced in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Holocaust
Beyond the Stereotypes
Read James Luther Adams’ account of a Nazi rally in 1927 and consider what it meant to be anti-Nazi at that time.
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Holocaust
Bielski Brothers’ Biography
Introduce students to the four brothers whose partisan unit saved Jewish lives from the forests of Belarus.
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Race in US History
Black Officeholders in the South
The following seven tables provide information about the numbers of African American officeholders in the South during Reconstruction and the backgrounds of those officeholders.
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Race in US History
Black South Carolinians Form a Militia For Protection (1874)
Hamburg, South Carolina, was an all-black town on the border with Georgia, an area that was a stronghold for the Democratic Party. Hearing news of white militias forming in surrounding towns, the intendant (or mayor) of Hamburg, John Gardner, formed an all-black militia of 84 men and, with the following letter, asked the governor to arm them as part of the state’s National Guard.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Black Teen Shot in Mo. Was Unarmed
An article in the Washington Post about the events in Ferguson, published two days after the incident, provides larger context for the shooting."}">An article in the Washington Post about the events in Ferguson, published two days after the incident, provides larger context for the shooting.
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Race in US History
Blood and Treasure Spent in Vain (1875)
In February 1875, Alabama’s black Republican legislators sent a petition to the US Congress, noting that "the Democratic Party of Alabama has made, and is now making, a deliberate and persistent attempt...to change the penal code and criminal laws of Alabama so as to place the liberty and legal rights of the poor man, and especially of the poor colored man, who is generally a Republican in politics, in the power and control of the dominant race who are, with few exceptions, the landholders, and Democratic in politics." The petition goes on to say that if this action is allowed to stand, the war to preserve the Union would have been a "grand mistake."
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