Resources for Civil Rights Blogs

Here are some news articles and other sources that you may want to use to extend and deepen your reflections about modern civil rights issues in America:

• New York Times: A Prom Divided (from May 2009)
• Teaching Tolerance: Crossing the Gap (from Spring 2009)
• Teaching Tolerance: Interview with Minnijean Brown (from Fall 2007)
• Teaching Tolerance: We Must Persevere (Segregation and the Supreme Court today) (from Fall 2007)
• Teach For America: What one organization is doing to try to close the achievement gap. Check out their site. Did you know that Ms. Giusto and Ms. P. both came up through TFA?
• Facing History: Justice of the Peace Won't Marry Interracial Couple (from Oct. 2009)
• Facing History: School Prom Integration In 2008 (from May 2009)