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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Katherine Taylor

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Where the White People Live - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    Boston's place among cities with racialized concentrations of affluence...not super impressive
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http://nfwm.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/06/us-farmworkers-eng.pdf - 0 views

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    A fact sheet about farm workers today
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Keystone XL pipeline raises tribal concerns - The Washington Post - 0 views

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    interactions re Keystone pipeline
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How Black Middle-Class Kids Become Poor Adults - The Atlantic - 1 views

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    downward mobility among Black middle class, institutional racism today
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John Brown's Rap (it's going down) - MC LaLa - YouTube - 0 views

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    Oh my gahd. This is the perfect blend of low-budget and awesome. I want all my kids to turn in projects that look like this.
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Lincoln's Evolving Thoughts On Slavery, And Freedom : NPR - 0 views

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    NPR Fresh Air clip about Lincoln's evolution. 36 minutes but might have a couple interesting minutes.
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Slaves Fought Back: Denmark Vesey - YouTube - 0 views

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    Vesey Africans In America Clip
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Slaves Fought Back: Gabriel's Conspiracy - YouTube - 0 views

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    Gabriel's rebellion (from Africans In America)
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Ain't I a Woman? Video - Slavery in America - HISTORY.com - 0 views

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    OMG, Kerry Washington reads Sojourner Truth...and then explains why the kind of history we are teaching is important!
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Video: Classroom | Nat Turner Rebellion | Watch The African Americans: Many Rivers to C... - 1 views

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    3 minute video summary of Turner. And I am now a Vanessa Holden groupie. Talks like a real person, not a history nerd. :)
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Evil not so banal, says new study | The Australian - 0 views

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    New take on Milgram. Were they "obeying an authority" or "doing it for a higher cause (science)?"
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Self-Segregation: Why It's So Hard for Whites to Understand Ferguson - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    title says it all - pithy use of key data points
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Little War on the Prairie | This American Life - 0 views

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    Audio Story with some great perspective on how the story of Native Americans is "sanitized" out of eastern American history, and some great background on Sioux events leading up to the final conflicts at Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee
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http://www.nps.gov/libi/forteachers/upload/2014_LBH-Teachers-Booklet-cx.pdf - 0 views

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    National Parks Service lesson plans for Little Bighorn
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TakingITGlobal - Inspire. Inform. Involve. - 0 views

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    Another "Do Something" type site encouraging student activism.
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Changing Demographics: What Can We Do to Promote Respect? - 0 views

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    Teaching Tolerance lesson plan addressing demographic change
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Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation - Curriculum - 0 views

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    Info about the Partisans, including video and curriculum resources
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The ADL GLOBAL 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism - 0 views

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    First comprehensive worldwide survey addressing pernicious myths about Jews. Pretty sobering.
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Reel American History - Films - List - 0 views

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    more fact and fiction in Glory
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