A network of religious congregations that became known as the Sanctuary Movement started with a Presbyterian church and a Quaker meeting in Tucson, Arizona.
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White U.S. servicemen and police entered a majority-Mexican American neighborhood in East Los Angeles and attacked and detained hundreds of young people in the “zoot suit riots.”
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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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Film. Directed by Catherine Murphy and Iris de Oliveira. 2025. 70 minutes.
Tells the story of an experimental adult education project in Northeastern Brazil led by Paulo Freire that enabled hundreds of rural people to read, write, and begin to vote.
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