Humanities

**Will Organize (History, Social Studies, English)

A Talk to Teachers - Zinn Education ProjectArticle. By James Baldwin. October 16, 1963. Baldwin addresses the challenges of education to prepare children to grapple with the myths and realities of U.S. history.

Attica Prison Uprising - Zinn Education ProjectResource list. Overview with links to articles, books, primers, films, and websites about the Attica Prison Uprising for the classroom.

Challenging Ourselves: Martin Luther King, the Movement, and Its Lessons for Today - Zinn Education ProjectArticle. By Charles E. Cobb. 2017. Charles E. Cobb Jr. discusses the Civil Rights Movement and its lessons, and how they apply to current movements.

Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery - Zinn Education ProjectWebsite. A companion site to the PBS documentary on the origins and legacy of American slavery, including episodes on the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.

Racial Equity Tools | HomeRacial Equity Tools offers tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working for racial justice at every level –in systems, organizations, communities, and the culture at large.

A People’s History of Muslims in the United States: What Textbooks and the Media Miss - Zinn Education ProjectBy Alison Kysia When I teach history related to Islam or Muslims in the United States, I begin by asking students what names they associate with these terms. The list is consistent year after year: Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, and Muhammad Ali. All of these individuals have affected U.S. history in significant ways. If we take a step back and look at the messages these figures communicate about Muslims in U.S. history, we see a story dominated by men and by the Nation of Islam. Although important, focusing solely on these stories leaves us with a skewed view of Muslims in U.S. history. Even these examples are a stretch. Most of my students reference 9/11 as the first time they heard of Muslims.

Inclusive Curriculum

The Day of Silence: Queer Kids, Conservative Kids, and the Silences Within and Between Them - Zinn Education ProjectArticle. By Anna McMaken-Marsh. Rethinking Schools. 2022. A high school teacher navigates the tensions that arise in conversations with students about the Day of Silence, and how to bridge divides.

Climate Change, Gender, and Nuclear Bombs - Zinn Education ProjectArticle. By Bill Bigelow. Rethinking Schools, Spring 2018. Gender is one of the crucial variables determining how the climate crisis affects us.

10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children's Books for Ableism - Zinn Education ProjectArticle. By Chloë Myers and Hank Bersani Jr. Rethinking Schools, Winter 2008/09. A guide for analyzing children's books for prejudice by able-bodied and able-minded people toward people with disabilities.

Freedom's Unfinished Revolution: Teaching a People’s History of Reconstruction - Zinn Education ProjectArticle. Background reading for teachers. By Bill Bigelow. 4 pages. A review of Freedom's Unfinished Revolution, a collection of primary documents for high school on the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Digital Collections:

Behind the Veil / Digital Collections / Duke Digital RepositoryA selection of recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.

Welcome to Blackpast •

www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/disability-rights

History of US Land Treaties: Activity

Ten Myths about Immigration

Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice SystemRacialized social control has adapted to race-neutral social and political norms in the form of mass incarceration. Criminalization stands in as a proxy for overt racism by limiting the rights and freedoms of a racially defined undercaste.

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