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Sharing via @zinneducationproject On this International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Dec. 3, here are some resources for teaching about the history of the disability rights movement. - “10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children’s Books for Ableism”: https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/10-quick-ways-to-analyze-childrens-books-for-ableism/ - Crip Camp documentary (@cripcampfilm): https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/crip-camp/ - The Power of 504 documentary…

Take this World History quiz at Encyclopaedia Britannica to test your knowledge of the American civil rights movement.

"Civil Rights Plus Full Employment Equals Freedom." Demonstration in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Photo credit: Consolidated News Pictures / Getty Images

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Protest activists. Crowd with raising fists at city street. Group of aggressive people protesting for human rights. Angry people make revolution. Created with Generative AI

Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike (1968) Beaucoup d'entre nous savent que Martin Luther King a été assassiné à Memphis, dans le Tennessee, mais ils ne savent peut-être pas pourquoi il s'y trouvait. Le chef de file du mouvement en faveur des droits civiques était venu manifester sa solidarité avec les 1300 éboueurs en grève, principalement des Afro-Américains, qui protestaient contre leurs pénibles conditions de travail, leur salaire de misère et le refus de la ville de reconnaître leur…

The movement to expand feminism beyond mainstream discourse is now in its sixth decade

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