10 Questions Framework: Questions for the Past
Students apply the 10 Questions Framework to 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott.
![Crowd fills LaSalle Street between City Hall and building housing Board of Education as hundreds of demonstrators marched in Chicago on Oct. 22, 1963 following a one-day boycott of public schools.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Democracy_1963_AfricanAmericanIntegrationAntiSchoolBoycott1963IL_FH2169828.jpg?h=12de4a96&itok=CAfhRaQg)
Strategies for Addressing Racist and Dehumanizing Language in Literature
Prepare to teach a challenging text with intention and care using the following recommendations.
![Student reading a book](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-11/6-6-14FacH00795.jpg?h=4362216e&itok=dwADfaYD)
They Called Us Enemy
This graphic memoir from actor, author, and activist George Takei recounts his childhood incarcerated in Japanese American internment camps during World War II.
![Little boy holding a suitcase while waiting in line at an intermittent camp](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-10/They-Called-Us-Enemy_cover%20%281%29%20%281%29_0.jpeg?h=1353eda4&itok=dXv08QSl)
East LA Walkouts Viewing Guide
Students answer the questions in this guide as they watch a video clip from a PBS documentary about the East LA school walkouts.
Discussing the Video A Class Divided
Students use these questions to guide their viewing of a video about a classroom experiment about discrimination.
"I Knew I Had to Give Him the Talk"
Mamie Till-Mobley shares an account of "the talk" she had with her son Emmett Till shortly before he journeyed from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955.
![Father holding child hand](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-03/iStock-1369187524.jpg?h=6b9347cd&itok=lAQ1JEMa)
"I Knew I Had to Give Him the Talk" (en español)
Mamie Till-Mobley shares an account of "the talk" she had with her son Emmett Till shortly before he journeyed from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955. This resource is in Spanish.
![Father holding child hand](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-03/iStock-1369187524.jpg?h=6b9347cd&itok=lAQ1JEMa)
Viewing Guide: The Murder of Emmett Till
Students use this handout to take notes while they watch a clip from the PBS documentary The Murder of Emmett Till.
![Student works on an assignment](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-11/_DSF7186-21.jpg?h=4362216e&itok=cBRwOKNB)
Viewing Guide: The Murder of Emmett Till (en español)
Students use this handout to take notes while they watch a clip from the PBS documentary The Murder of Emmett Till. This resource is in Spanish.
![Student works on an assignment](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-11/_DSF7186-21.jpg?h=4362216e&itok=cBRwOKNB)
Racial Lynching in the United States
This map uses research from African American sociologist Monroe Nathan Work to pinpoint the location of the 4,000+ racial lynchings that occurred in the United States since 1848.
![Map showing racial lynchings across the world](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-03/Racial_Lynchings_Map.jpg?h=4a5904a2&itok=zmKgjC44)
Racial Lynching in the United States (en español)
This map uses research from African American sociologist Monroe Nathan Work to pinpoint the location of the 4,000+ racial lynchings that occurred in the United States since 1848. This resource is in Spanish.
![Map showing racial lynchings across the world](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-03/Racial_Lynchings_Map.jpg?h=4a5904a2&itok=zmKgjC44)