What Is a Hate Crime and How Do Hate Crimes Impact People?
This explainer helps students understand what hate crimes are and the impact they can have on individuals and communities.
Facing History & Ourselves Civic Knowledge Research Project
This guide provides prompts and strategies for the written Research Project component of New York State’s Seal of Civic Readiness.
“A 'Total Violation of Human Dignity’ Girlhood Interrupted in Auschwitz (1944)”
This is an excerpt from Simone Lagrange's testimony at a war crimes trial in 1987.
A Time of Crisis: The Sanitation Strike
Learn about the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers’ strike and Martin Luther King Jr.'s role in the strike and negotiations.
Lynda Lowery Describes Bloody Sunday
Lynda Lowery describes "Bloody Sunday" and the resolve that motivated her throughout.
No Human Being Was Born Illegal
Students at a school in Los Angeles raise awareness about derogatory labels used to describe individuals who immigrated to the United States as well as those who identify as LGBTQIA+.
Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Legislature, 1877
This 1777 primary source is an antislavery petition from a group of African Americans in Massachusetts.
“On the Equality of the Sexes” by Judith Sargent Murray, 1790
This 1790 primary source is an influential essay from a white female writer and intellectual.
Rev. Dr. Bernard Lafayette on Non-Violence
Rev. Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr. discusses the important practice of nonviolence.
Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth Recounts the Bombing of His Parsonage in 1956
Fred Shuttlesworth speaks about the civil rights movement's commitment to non-violence.
Scottsboro: an American Tragedy
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In March 1931, two white women in Alabama made the shocking accusation that they had been raped by nine black teenagers on a train. The trials of the young men drew North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War.