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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

You can’t skip the slavery unit, or you can’t think to skip Harriet Jacobs’ primary source of her narratives of a slave girl, where she’s talking about being sexually harassed by slaveholder,” she said. In kindergarten and middle school, we only ever talked about Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King.”

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

The primary and secondary sources are perfect for middle school readers at multiple levels. It introduces middle school students that there are forms of resistance that aren’t immediately obvious. Leading our workshop was an Indigenous Education Leader from Louis Riel School Division.

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