Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
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Lesson Plan: Stealing J. Edgar Hoover’s Secrets
Students will analyze the significance of the break-in at the Media, Pennsylvania FBI office and the subsequent exposure of the COINTELPRO program.
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Lesson Plan: How ‘Zero Tolerance’ Blurred the Line Between School and the Justice System
Students will learn the social and political forces that led schools to adopt “zero tolerance” discipline policies in the 1980s and 1990s, and the racially unequal consequences of these policies today.
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Lesson Plan: Forever Prison
Students will learn how Guantanamo Bay was first used to detain thousands of Haitians outside the reach of U.S. law and explore the possible reasons one might emigrate to another country.
