Race, Social Justice, and Civil Rights

The 1619 Project aims to reframe U.S. history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the center of our national narrative. This curriculum includes reading guides, activities, and other classroom resources.

This list of web resources was developed by the Race Institute for K-12 Educators, and includes readings for educators and students.

A joint effort of the USC Libraries and the Anti-Racist Pedagogy Organizing Committee, this guide provides resources for developing anti-racist pedagogical strategies and syllabi.

Black Lives Matter at School is a national coalition organizing for racial justice in education. These classroom resources strive to challenge racism and oppression and provide students with the vocabulary and tools needed to take action.

This toolkit by the Western States Center offers strategies to counter white nationalist organizing in schools, with tools for parents, students, teachers, school administrators, and the wider community.

This website is devoted to conscious language, defined by founder Karen Yin as the art of using words effectively in a specific context. Here you'll find style guides and articles covering terminology and usage when writing about various communities.

Brief video courses by Clint Smith on the experience of Black people in America, from the arrival of the first enslaved Black people who arrived at Jamestown all the way to the Black Lives Matter movement.

This guide by the Anti-Defamation League offers daily steps that educators can take to create a respectful, inclusive environment in which students can explore and counter the complex issues of prejudice and bias.

EmbraceRace offers starting points for finding diverse books including sites, blogs, and articles on creating an anti-biased children's book collection.

This document was compiled by the Center for Racial Justice in Education. It includes interviews and advice from experts, resource lists, and articles.

The Chicago Public Schools developed this toolkit to help foster productive conversations about race and civil disobedience. It includes resources for parents and educators as they engage young people in conversation about race, racism, racial violence, understanding biases, and how to take action for racial justice.

Learning Lab resources at the Smithsonian with the tag "black history." Teachers can access resources and use the interactive tools on the site to create their own collections. Find more by searching for "Smithsonian Learning Lab Collections."

Since the opening of the National Museum of African American History & Culture, the number one question people have asked is how to talk about race. In 2014, it launched its signature program, “Let’s Talk! Teaching Race in the Classroom.”

Free film kits, lesson plans, student texts, printable posters, teaching strategies, and more.

The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States, the website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level.

The Center for Restorative History (CRH) at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History spotlights the people and stories that have been excluded from our national narrative using the principles of restorative justice. In this pamphlet, learn about what restorative history is, what it looks like in practice, what the Center for Restorative History is, and how you can learn more.

El Center for Restorative History (CRH) del Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History destaca a las personas e historias que han sido excluidas de nuestra narrativa nacional, utilizando los principios de la justicia restaurativa. En este folleto obtendrá información acerca de qué es la historia restaurativa, cómo se lleva a cabo en la práctica, qué representa el Center for Restorative History y cómo puede acceder a más información.