Boston Educational Justice, 1980–2022
A timeline of significant dates and events in the movements for educational justice in Boston from 1980–2022.
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There Was a Purpose in My Being There
Learn about the voter registration drives in the South during the civil rights movement through a volunteer’s first hand account.
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February One
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This video tells about the men who started the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, NC.
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Big Paper Examples
This handout contains images for a Big Paper activity where students explore examples of people promoting belonging and safety.
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Race and Belonging in Colonial America: The Story of Anthony Johnson
Learn about Anthony Johnson, a Black forced laborer who became free in seventeenth-century Virginia.
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Black Officeholders in the South
These tables provide data about African American officeholders in the South during Reconstruction.
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Black Officeholders in the South (en español)
In Spanish, these tables provide data about African American officeholders in the South during Reconstruction.
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Changing Names
Three formerly enslaved people discuss their names and the changes they underwent after Emancipation.
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Changing Names (en español)
Three formerly enslaved people discuss their names and the changes they underwent after Emancipation. This reading is in Spanish.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1866
This is the full text of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which made freedpeople citizens.
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Congress Debates the Fourteenth Amendment
Quotations from the 1866 congressional debate over the Fourteenth Amendment help students clarify what the amendment says and its significance.
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