In Norfolk, where schools had been closed for months rather than desegregate, 17 African American students began attending six previously all-white middle and high schools on February 2, 1959.
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In the case of John T. Scopes v. the State of Tennessee, the defendant, Scopes, was found guilty and fined $100 for teaching about evolution — which was illegal in the state at the time.
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Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Nadine M. Kalin and Rebekah Modrak. 2024. 296 pages.
Gives readers a teacher’s-eye view of the radical right crusade to take down public education, coordinated by well-funded, well-connected far-right political interests.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Stacie Brensilver Berman and Robert Cohen. 2025. 250 pages.
Insights, concrete strategies, and lesson plans for teaching LGBTQ+ history in high schools.
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Nearly 500 white men destroyed the integrated Noyes Academy in Canaan, New Hampshire.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove. 2019. 624 pages.
Tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital.
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Governor Orval Faubus closed all Little Rock, Arkansas public schools for one year rather than allow integration.
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One third of the students at Harrison Technical High School staged a walkout to protest the lack of African American history classes, overcrowding and poor conditions, and more.
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With a long list of grievances, more than 1,200 students at John Hay High School in Cleveland, Ohio, walked out of school and held an unauthorized assembly.
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Free speech activist Mary Beth Tinker on the importance of teaching truthfully about the U.S. Constitution.
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Walter H. Williams was the first Black teacher appointed to a Freedmen’s Bureau School in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana during Reconstruction.
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On Constitution Day in 2020, the White House convened a Conference on American History. The speakers took aim at the Zinn Education Project, Howard Zinn, and the New York Times 1619 Project.
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During the racially-charged Ocean Hill-Brownsville teachers’ strike in New York City, nearly 200 teenagers from 25 high schools established the New York High School Student Union.
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The “Marching Mothers” of Hillsboro sued the school district and began daily marches to desegregate elementary schools in this town in Ohio.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Jarvis R. Givens. 2025. 464 pages.
A new history of U.S. education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences.
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A. Philip Randolph, Jackie Robinson, Coretta Scott King, Harry Belafonte, Bayard Rustin, and more led a Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington, D.C.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Eve L. Ewing. 2026. 400 pages.
An examination of how the U.S. school system helps maintain racial inequality and social hierarchies.
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Learn directly from people's historians by listening to these audio recordings of Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online classes.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Jarvis R. Givens. 2021. 320 pages.
Details the long assault on Black education that occurred from the period of enslavement through the life of one of the founders of the Black studies tradition, Carter G. Woodson.
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Carter G. Woodson initiated the first celebration of Negro History Week which led to Black History Month.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Carter G. Woodson, with an introduction by Jarvis Givens. 2023. 224 pages.
Originally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions about the legacy of slavery and enduring white supremacy.
Teaching Activity by Carter G. Woodson
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Book — Non-fiction. By Jarvis R. Givens. 2026. 208 pages.
At a time when Black history is under attack, this book offers an inspiring vision for how it can still be a source of power, truth, and possibility.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Kyle Ward. 2007. 374 pages.
From the widely acclaimed co-author of History Lessons comes an examination of ways in which Americans tell the history their country has changed over time.
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Digital collection. Intellectual, political, and cultural contributions of Black educators during the Jim Crow era through the Civil Rights era.
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The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of racially segregated public schools, affirming that such segregation was not in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause.
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