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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In disciplined groups and singing freedom songs, students “ditch” class to march for justice and fill the jails.
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Teaching Activity. By Adam Sanchez and Jesse Hagopian. Rethinking Schools. 33 pages.
A mixer lesson introduces students to the pivotal history of the Black Panthers.
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In April 1970, millions of people gathered around the country in one of the largest demonstrations in U.S. history to celebrate the first Earth Day and demand action be taken on a variety of environmental issues.
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Mary Hamilton's insistence on being addressed by Miss led to a Supreme Court ruling requiring honorifics for everyone in court, regardless of race or gender.
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Picture book. By Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Jeffery Boston Weatherford. 2022. 40 pages.
The story of Mary Hamilton, whose 1964 Supreme Court case led to the ruling that all people in court should be referred to with honorifics.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw. 2026. 400 pages.
This memoir traces the way Crenshaw’s lived experiences led her to articulate the concepts of intersectionality and critical race theory.
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Carrie Coleman Robinson, a Black school librarian in Alabama, brought a landmark case to the U.S. District Court alleging that Alabama’s Department of Education denied her equal protection as a department employee because of her race.
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We offer lessons, films, and this day in people’s history entries to teach about the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement.
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George Jackson’s killing at San Quentin State Prison was a galvanizing moment for organizers inside and outside of prisons, from the Attica Uprising that began just weeks later to the commemoration of Black August to honor his resistance along with that of other Black freedom fighters and political prisoners.
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