Book — Non-fiction. By Barbara Ransby. 2024 (Second Edition). 512 pages.
This biography chronicles Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher, from her early experiences in depression-era Harlem to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Pauli Murray and Adelene McBean were arrested on a Greyhound bus near Petersburg, Virginia for refusing to move to the back of the bus and were subsequently arrested and jailed.
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Teaching Activity. By Adam Sanchez. Rethinking Schools.
A high school social studies teacher describes a classroom simulation where students experience the effects of decades of racist federal housing policies.
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Teaching Activity. By Gretchen Kraig-Turner. 2024. Rethinking Schools.
A high school science teacher revises her lesson on the USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee to center resistance.
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Teaching Guide. By Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond. 1988. 184 pages.
Role plays and writing activities project high school students into real-life situations to explore the history and contemporary reality of employment (and unemployment) in the U.S.
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Book — Historical non-fiction. By Christy Mihaly, with illustrations by Mariona Cabassa. 2026. 56 pages.
An inspiring picture book biography of a UN Peace Medal recipient who used his songs — and his silence — to fight fascism, oppression, and violence.
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Teaching Activity. By Linda Christensen. Rethinking Schools. 20 pages.
Teaching about racist patterns of murder, theft, displacement, and wealth inequality through the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
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A general strike was called in Amsterdam to protest Nazi persecution of Jews under the German Nazi occupation.
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In one of countless white supremacist massacres in U.S. history, white supremacists destroyed a thriving Black community in Oklahoma, known today as the Tulsa Massacre.
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Teaching Activity. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca.
In this lesson, students analyze who is to blame for the illegal, mass deportations of Mexican Americans and immigrants during the Great Depression.
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Teaching Activity. By Erin Green. 2025. Rethinking Schools.
A 5th-grade teacher engages students in a unit on the forced deportation of 2 million Mexicans and Mexican Americans from the United States during the Great Depression.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Damario Solomon-Simmons. 2026. 400 pages.
The story of the Tulsa Race Massacre as told through the historic legal case for reparations and the deeply moving stories of survivors and descendants of the Massacre.
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Film. By Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller. 2010. 78 minutes.
Documentary on life and work of Howard Zinn.
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Digital collection. Information and resources on the 1934 truckers strikes in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Profile. By Gabriel Thompson. 2013.
Introduction to little-known but influential labor organizer Fred Ross (1910-1992), who trained many activists of note including Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez.
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The Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 was settled with union recognition and reinstatement for all fired workers.
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Immigration agents raided La Placita Park where they arrested and deported dozens of Mexican Americans.
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Teaching Activity. By Matt Reed. Published by Rethinking Schools. 2023.
This mixer activity helps students uncover the radical legacy of Ida B. Wells.
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In an attempt to gain pay equity for Black teachers in Maryland, William B. Gibbs Jr. became the lead plaintiff in the NAACP’s case for pay equity in Montgomery County, a case known as Gibbs v. Broome.
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A month after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Black soldiers on R&R in the town of Alexandria, Louisiana were attacked by local and military police, with dozens murdered and countless others injured in this brutal instance of Jim Crow violence.
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Ranked by firefighters as the fourth deadliest club fire in the history of the country, 209 concert-goers perished in this night club fire in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Picture book. By Jonah Winter, with illustrations by Nancy Carpenter.2020. 40 pages.
The story of Mary “Mother” Jones and the 100 children who marched from Philadelphia to New York in a fiery protest against child labor.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Howard Bryant. 2026. 320 pages.
Highlighting the lives of Paul Robeson and Jackie Robinson, this book tells the story of sports and fame, Black life in the United States, and the promise of integration through the Cold War lens of two transformative events.
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