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If We Knew Our History Series
Teaching Untold Stories During Asian Pacific American Heritage Month By Moé Yonamine, high school teacher, Portland, Ore. Most U.S. history textbooks now acknowledge that beginning in 1942, the U.S. government rounded up more than 110,000 people of Japanese descent---- even those who were U.S. citizens---- and sent them to internment camps. What the textbooks fail to include is that the United States demanded that Latin American governments do the same thing, and turn over their own internees to U.S. authorities. These internees went on to become refugees with no country to call home. Continue reading. _____________________________________________________________ "Teaching Untold Stories During Asian Pacific Heritage Month" is our featured article in the Zinn Education Project's column, If We Knew Our History . You can help us reach a wider audience in three steps: READ - COMMENT - SHARE Read, comment, and share today!

60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education

This Day in History: Barbara Johns leads a student strike.

This Saturday, May 17, marks the 60th anniversary of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling that called for the end of segregation in our public schools. As Rethinking Schools wrote on the 50th anniversary, "we have not come far enough toward this goal. And in many ways we have slid backward."

Continue reading this article, "Brown 50 Years Later" at Rethinking Schools and view more resources on Brown v. Board of Education.

Image: Painting of Barbara Johns by Robert Shetterly. In 1951, Barbara Johns led a student strike protesting substandard school conditions. Learn more.

Featured Teaching Activities
Stenciling Dissent: A Student Project Draws on the Language of the Streets By Andrew Reed. Connects students to history of art as a means of protest and gives them opportunity and skills to create their own stencil with a powerful message.	Unleashing Sorrow and Joy: Writing Poetry from History and Literature By Linda Christensen. Teacher reflection on different ways to effectively incorporate poetry into history or literature classes.	Reading Between the Lines: An Art Contest Helps Students Imagine the Lives of Runaway Slaves By Thom Thacker and Michael A. Lord. Students examine primary historical documents (advertisements for runaway slaves) to gain a deeper understanding of the institution of slavery in the North.
Remembering Mahmoud Darwish By Naomi Shihab Nye and Linda Christensen. An essay, poem, and teaching idea utilizing famous Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's work to help students "name the invisible forces that imprison them."	Lessons in Solidarity: Grady Hospital Workers United By Larry Miller. Story and discussion questions about a teacher's own experience of racial injustice and labor solidarity.	Sun City---- A Teaching Guide By Bill Bigelow. Lessons to accompany the video 'Sun City' that promoted the cultural boycott of South Africa initiated by Little Steven van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen's E St. Band.

New Edition from Rethinking Schools

Book: Rethinking Multicultural Educaiton

Rethinking Multicultural Education

Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice
Second Edition, New and Expanded

Edited by Wayne Au

Rethinking Multicultural Education moves beyond a simplistic focus on heroes and holidays to demonstrate a powerful vision of anti-racist, social justice education.

Practical, rich in story, and analytically sharp, Rethinking Multicultural Education reclaims multicultural education as part of a larger struggle for justice and against racism, colonization, and cultural oppression---- in schools and society. Read more.

Donor Profile
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	The goal of the Zinn Education Project is to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history. www.zinnedproject.org

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