TEACHING TOLERANCE
Central Text Anthology, Grades K-2
informational
literature
visual
multi-media
RACE AND ETHNICITY
Connected to
Everything
A story from the
Bitterroot Salish
Greene, Jennifer
Families
Morris, Ann
Freedom Riders
Brownstein, Rhonda
The Story of Suzie
King Taylor
Rappaport, Doreen
My Name Was
Hussein
Kyuchukov, Hristo
One Million Men
and Me
Lyons, Kelly
Starling
This Little Light
of Mine
Loes, Harry Dixon
Dr. King Marches
on Washington
Associated Press
Two Friends
Realistic Reflections
GENDER
Jerrie Mock
Bryant, Tamera
Storm
Bryant, Tamera
Susan B. Anthony
Wallner, Alexandra
You Forgot Your
Skirt, Amelia
Bloomer!
Corey, Shana
Z and Vielpunkt
Bryant, Tamera
Mama Played
Baseball
Adler, David
One Million Men
and Me
Lyons, Kelly
Starling
What is Talmud?
A Jewish tale
set in medieval
Germany
Jaffe, Nina and
Steve Zeitlin
Family
Restaurant
James, Andrea
LGBT
Z and Vielpunkt
Bryant, Tamera
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Family
Restaurant
James, Andrea
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PERSPECTIVES FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA
TEACHING TOLERANCE
A Literacy-based Anti-bias Curriculum
CLASS
Families
Morris, Ann
Chicken Soup: A
Russian Tale of Giving
Starovoytova, Irina
Eat, My Fine Coat!
Walker, Barbara
Supriya’s Bowl
A Buddhist Tale of
Giving
Krishnaswami, Uma
The Emerald Lizard
A Guatemalan Tale of
Helping Others
DeSpain, Pleasant L.
The Fiery Tail
A Chinese Tale of True
Beauty
Long, Hua
The Fighting Mynahs
A story from Hawaii
about how it’s better to
share and cooperate than
to squabble and fight
Hayashi, Leslie Ann
IMMIGRATION
Families
Morris, Ann
Julia Moves to the
United States
McCullum, Sean
Papalotzin and
the Monarchs: A
Bilingual Tale of
Breaking Down
Walls
González,
Rigoberto
RELIGION
Families
Morris, Ann
Ramadan
Marx, David F.
Zahrah’s Hijab
McCullum, Sean
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About Feeling
Jewish
Little, Jean
How the World
Came to Be
Generi, Anita
My Name Was
Hussein
Kyuchukov, Hristo
What Is Talmud?
A Jewish tale
set in medieval
Germany
Jaffe, Nina and
Steve Zeitlin
Sikh Eyechart for
America
Singh, Vishavjit
Stand Up Singh
Singh, Vishavjit
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PERSPECTIVES FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA
TEACHING TOLERANCE
A Literacy-based Anti-bias Curriculum
ABILITY
An Unlikely
Friendship
Carloni, Sue
Raspberries!
An American Tale
of Cooperation
DePalma, Mary
Newell
Sometimes
Elliot, Rebecca
The Blind Man
and the Hunter
A West African
Tale of Learning
From Your
Mistakes
Lupton, Hugh
Two Friends
Realistic Reflections
StoryCorps: Every
Brain is Different
Wargo, Kim and Ida
Cortez
StoryCorps:
Mitchel’s Sister Is
Deaf
Watterson, Debbie
and Mitchel
Watterson
COMMUNITY
Peace Begins With
You
Scholes, Katherine
Crocodile and
Ghost Bat Have a
Hullabaloo
An Australian Tale
of Name-Calling
Sapp, Jeff
Old Joe and the
Carpenter
An Appalachian
Tale of Building
Bridges
MacDonald,
Margaret Read
The Clever Boy
and the Terrible,
Dangerous Animal
Sapp, Jeff
The Prince and the
Rhinoceros
An Indian Tale of
Speaking Kindly
Knapp, Toni
The Rat’s Promise
A tale from the Fipa
people of Zambia
UNICEF
The Three Billy Goats
Gracious
Holladay, Jennifer
Why Frogs and Snakes
Never Play Together
A Pourquoi of
Prejudice
A PLAY IN 3 ACTS
Sapp, Jeff
PLACE
Freedom Riders
Brownstein, Rhonda
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Dr. King Marches
on Washington
Associated Press
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TEACHING TOLERANCE
Central Text Anthology, Grades 3-5
informational
literature
visual
multi-media
RACE AND ETHNICITY
Ain’t I a Woman?
Truth, Sojourner
Beyond the Barbed
Wire
Tsuchiya, Helen and
Larry Long
Connected to
Everything
A story from the
Bitterroot Salish
Greene, Jennifer
Freedom Riders
Brownstein, Rhonda
The Story of Suzie
King Taylor
Rappaport, Doreen
March with Me
Turner, Rosalie T.
One Million Men
and Me
Lyons, Kelly Starling
Rose Blanche
Innocenti, Roberto
and Christophe
Gallaz
Dr. King Marches
on Washington
Associated Press
I Am a Man
Copley, Richard L.
StoryCorps: I was
the First Black
Student
Tureaud Jr., A.P. and
Steven Walkley
StoryCorps:
Registering to Vote
Burroughs, Theresa
and Toni Love
10,000 Dresses
Ewert, Marcus
We Can Do It!
Miller, J. Howard
Family Restaurant
James, Andrea
Religious
Discrimination
for Learning and
Development
Training
Training4Ltd
GENDER
Ain’t I a Woman?
Truth, Sojourner
Storm
Bryant, Tamera
Susan B. Anthony
Wallner, Alexandra
You Forgot Your
Skirt, Amelia
Bloomer!
Corey, Shana
Z and Vielpunkt
Bryant, Tamera
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Esperanza Rising
Ryan, Pam Muñoz
Mama Played
Baseball
Adler, David
Margaret
Batchelder,
Immigrant
Inspector (1903)
Swain, Gwenyth
One Million Men
and Me
Lyons, Kelly Starling
The Breadwinner
Ellis, Deborah
What Is Talmud?
A Jewish tale set in
medieval Germany
Jaffe, Nina and Steve
Zeitlin
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PERSPECTIVES FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA
TEACHING TOLERANCE
A Literacy-based Anti-bias Curriculum
LGBT
Z and Vielpunkt
Bryant, Tamera
Family Restaurant
James, Andrea
CLASS
Ain’t I a Woman?
Truth, Sojourner
Homeless
Wolf, Bernard
Lives Turned
Upside Down:
Homeless
Children in Their
Own Words and
Photographs
Hubbard, Jim
Chicken Soup: A
Russian Tale of
Giving
Starovoytova, Irina
Eat, My Fine Coat!
Walker, Barbara
Supriya’s Bowl
A Buddhist Tale of
Giving
Krishnaswami, Uma
The Emerald Lizard
A Guatemalan Tale
of Helping Others
DeSpain, Pleasant L.
The Fiery Tail
A Chinese Tale of
True Beauty
Long, Hua
The Fighting
Mynahs: A story
from Hawaii about
how it’s better
to share and
cooperate than to
squabble and fight
Hayashi, Leslie Ann
I Am a Man
Copley, Richard L.
We Can Do It!
Miller, J. Howard
StoryCorps: My
Father Worked in a
Chocolate Factory
Pollio, Carmela,
Laurence Hewitt, and
Yoshiharu Hewitt
The Power of
Words
Purplefeather
IMMIGRATION
Beyond the Barbed
Wire
Tsuchiya, Helen and
Larry Long
Inspections
Swain, Gwenyth
Julia Moves to the
United States
McCullum, Sean
© 2015 Teaching Tolerance
Esperanza Rising
Ryan, Pam Muñoz
Margaret
Batchelder,
Immigrant
Inspector (1903)
Swain, Gwenyth
Najeeb Abreely,
Immigrant
Inspector (1890s)
Swain, Gwenyth
Papalotzin and
the Monarchs: A
Bilingual Tale of
Breaking Down
Walls
González, Rigoberto
We Live By What
We See at Night
Espada, Martin
StoryCorps:
Crossing the
Border
Alvarez, Blanca and
Connie Alvarez
StoryCorps: My
Father Worked in a
Chocolate Factory
Pollio, Carmela,
Laurence Hewitt, and
Yoshiharu Hewitt
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PERSPECTIVES FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA
TEACHING TOLERANCE
A Literacy-based Anti-bias Curriculum
RELIGION
Zahrah’s Hijab
McCullum, Sean
A War on the
Peaceful
Story Corner
About Feeling
Jewish
Little, Jean
How the World
Came to Be
Genari, Anita
Rose Blanche
Innocenti, Roberto
and Christophe
Gallaz
What Is Talmud?
A Jewish tale set in
medieval Germany
Jaffe, Nina and Steve
Zeitlin
Sikh Eyechart for
America
Singh, Vishavjit
Stand Up Singh
Singh, Vishavjit
Religious
Discrimination
for Learning and
Development
Training
Training4Ltd
ABILITY
A Girl and a Word
Linn, Laura
Soccer Teams and
Coaches
Hoffman Cathy and
Michael Hoffman
© 2015 Teaching Tolerance
An Unlikely
Friendship
Carloni, Sue
Joey Pigza
Swallowed the Key
Gantos, Jack
The Blind Man and
the Hunter
A West African Tale
of Learning From
Your Mistakes
Lupton, Hugh
StoryCorps: Dad’s
Bionic Hand
Jones, Lanie, Alex
Jones and Eric Jones
StoryCorps: Every
Brain is Different
Kim and Ida Cortez
StoryCorps: I Tried
to Hide My Stutter
Alexander, Taro
StoryCorps:
Mitchel’s Sister Is
Deaf
Watterson, Debbie
and Mitchel
Watterson
The Power of
Words
Purplefeather
tolerance.org
PERSPECTIVES FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA
TEACHING TOLERANCE
A Literacy-based Anti-bias Curriculum
COMMUNITY
Peace Begins With
You
Scholes, Katherine
Crocodile and
Ghost
Bat Have a
Hullabaloo
An Australian Tale
of Name-Calling
Sapp, Jeff
Old Joe and the
Carpenter
An Appalachian
Tale of Building
Bridges
MacDonald,
Margaret Read
The First Coconut
Tree
Flood, Nancy Bo
The Prince and the
Rhinoceros
An Indian Tale of
Speaking Kindly
Knapp, Toni
The Three Billy
Goats Gracious
Holladay, Jennifer
The Rat’s Promise
A tale from the Fipa
people of Zambia
UNICEF
PLACE
Freedom Riders
Brownstein, Rhonda
Homeless
Wolf, Bernard
© 2015 Teaching Tolerance
March with Me
Turner, Rosalie T.
We Live By What
We See at Night
Espada, Martin
Dr. King Marches
on Washington
Associated Press
tolerance.org
TEACHING TOLERANCE
Central Text Anthology, Grades 6-8
informational
literature
visual
multi-media
RACE AND ETHNICITY
Abraham Lincoln
and Frederick
Douglass: The
Story Behind
an American
Friendship
Freedman, Russell
Always Running
Rodriguez, Luis J.
Bone Black
hooks, bell
Choices
Angelou, Maya
“Color Guards”
with No Flags
Carter, Carl
Danger on my
Doorstep
Schubert, Linda
Gay and Lesbian
Parents
Fields, Julianna
Investing in the
Community
Diuguid, Lewis
Loving for All
Loving, Mildred
One America for
today, tomorrow
and forever,
Clinton says
Clinton, William
Jefferson
© 2015 Teaching Tolerance
A Poem for My
Librarian, Mrs.
Long
(You never know
what troubled little
girl needs a book)
Giovanni, Nikki
Echoes
Mora, Pat
Foul Line — 1987
McElroy, Colleen
Harlem
Hughes, Langston
I, Too
Hughes, Langston
Lift Every Voice
and Sing
Johnson, James W.
Raised By Women
Ellis, Kelly Norman
Still I Rise
Angelou, Maya
Sure You Can Ask
Me a Personal
Question
Burns, Diane
The Skin I’m In
(Chapter 3)
Flake, Sharon
The Skin I’m In
(Chapter 4)
Flake, Sharon
Confrontation at
the Bridge
Lawrence, Jacob
Dr. King Marches
on Washington
Associated Press
I Am a Man
Copley, Richard L.
Illegal Immigrants
Arend van Dam
Civil Rights March
in Selma
NBC Learn
Indian Occupation
of Alcatraz
NBC Learn
Knock Knock
Daniel Beaty
Secret Audiotapes
of JFK Decrying
Civil Rights
Violations in
Birmingham
NBC Learn
StoryCorps: A Boy
Scout’s Good Deed
Franklin, John Hope
and John W. Franklin
StoryCorps: Dr.
King’s Final Speech
Rogers. Taylor and
Bessie Rogers
StoryCorps: Father,
Daughter and the
Holocaust
Fisher, Debbie and
Terrance Hicks
StoryCorps:
Fighting to Stay in
School
Mendez, Sylvia and
Sandra Mendez
Duran
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PERSPECTIVES FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA
A Literacy-based Anti-bias Curriculum
TEACHING TOLERANCE
RACE AND ETHNICITY
Patience Is a Dirty
and Nasty Word
Lewis, John
Septima Clark
Interview, July 1976
Hall, Jacquelyn
Testimony Before
the Credentials
Committee,
Democratic
National
Convention
Hamer, Fannie Lou
The burden of being
a young American
Muslim
Woldt, Hailey
The First
Americans
The Grand Council
Fire of American
Indians
To Fulfill These
Rights
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights, 1948
United Nations
Welfare is a
Women’s Issue
Tillmon, Johnnie
© 2015 Teaching Tolerance
What If There
Were No Black
People?
Mauricette, Sean (aka
SUBLIMINAL)
Why Chicken Means
So Much to Me
Alexie, Sherman
StoryCorps: I
Couldn’t Buy a
Movie Ticket
Awumey, Ezra and
Sam Harmon
StoryCorps: It Was
Never a Slum to Me
Jacques, Carol
StoryCorps:
Memphis Sanitation
Workers’ Strike
Turks Jr., Reverend
George
StoryCorps: Mother
Enrolled Me in
School
Villanueva, Lourdes
and Roger Villanueva
StoryCorps:
Segragated
Swimming Pool
Holmes, Robert
StoryCorps: She
Couldn’t Wear
Fingernail Polish
Noone, Mary Ellen
StoryCorps: She
Kissed Me on the
Cheek
Thompson, James,
Dwight Thompason,
and Brenda Lee
Graham
StoryCorps: They
Changed My Name
Sanchez, Ramon
“Chunky”
StoryCorps: When
Sanjay Brought
Home a Girl
Konur, Sulochana and
Malissa Konur
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PERSPECTIVES FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA
TEACHING TOLERANCE
A Literacy-based Anti-bias Curriculum
GENDER
One School
Girl’s Protest
of Seventeen
Magazine-Now
75,000 Strong
Bluhm, Julia
Parent Power:
Raising Kate
One mom’s fight for
her child’s identity
Matthiessen, Connie
Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights,
1948
United Nations
Welfare is a
Woman’s Issue
Tillmon, Johnnie
© 2015 Teaching Tolerance
Foul Line—1987
McElroy, Colleen
Raised By Women
Ellis, Kelly Norman
The Misfits
Howe, James
The Awakening
Mayer, Henry
A Rare Person
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Being Different Is
Like a Part-Time
Job
I Learn America
Gend-o-meter
Chasnoff, Debra
Gender Spectrum
Chasnoff, Debra
Hawai’i Pono’i
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Hawaiians Live in
Aloha
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
I Am Divided
I Learn America
Kāne-wahine and
Wahine-kāne
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Knock Knock
Beaty, Daniel
Kumu Hina’s
Transition
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Meet Ho’onani
Kamai
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilsonn
Religious
Discrimination
for Learning and
Development
Training
Training4Ltd
StoryCorps: Job
Interview
Smallwood, Tia and
Christine
What Do You Know?
Six to twelve year
olds talk about gays
and lesbians
Welcoming Schools
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PERSPECTIVES FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA
TEACHING TOLERANCE
A Literacy-based Anti-bias Curriculum
LGBT
Families Like Mine:
Children of Gay
Parents Tell It Like
It Is
Garner, Abigail
Gay and Lesbian
Parents
Fields, Julianna
Loving for All
Loving, Mildred
Parent Power:
Raising Kate
One mom’s fight for
her child’s identity
Matthiessen, Connie
© 2015 Teaching Tolerance
The Misfits
Howe, James
Gay Marriage
Sack, Steve
A Rare Person
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Gend-o-meter
Chasnoff, Debra
Gender Spectrum
Chasnoff, Debra
Hawai’i Pono’i
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Hawaiians Live in Aloha
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Kāne-wahine and
Wahine-kāne
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Kumu Hina’s Transition
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Meet Ho’onani Kamai
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
School Is a Place to Ask
Questions
I Learn America
StoryCorps: Gay in the
Marine Corps
Bailey, Kendall and Don
Davis
StoryCorps: Stonewall
Riots
Levine, Michael and
Matthew Merlin
StoryCorps: We Were
Caught
Littlefield, Rob
StoryCorps: When
Grandfather Came Out
Perri, Tony and Jeffrey
Perri
StoryCorps: When Mr.
Byrne Came Out
Byrne, John and Samantha
Liebman
What Do You Know? Six
to twelve year olds talk
about gays and lesbians
Welcoming Schools
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PERSPECTIVES FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA
TEACHING TOLERANCE
A Literacy-based Anti-bias Curriculum
CLASS
Always Running
Rodriguez, Luis J.
Choices
Angelou, Maya
Community in
Action
Terkel, Studs
Fear
Soto, Gary
Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights,
1948
United Nations
Welfare is a
Woman’s Issue
Tillmon, Johnnie
© 2015 Teaching Tolerance
Echoes
Mora, Pat
Harlem
Hughes, Langston
Why Chicken
Means So Much to
Me
Alexie, Sherman
Average Household
Income
Gilson, Dave and
Carolyn Perot
Crazy Versus
Eccentric
Singer, Andy
Flint Sit-Down
Strike
Unknown
How Rich Are the
Superrich?
Gilson, Dave and
Carolyn Perot
Hunger
Fitzsimmons, David
I Am a Man
Copley, Richard L.
Percentage of
People in Poverty
in the Last Twelve
Months
U.S. Census Bureau
A Priceless Lesson
in Humility
Morales, Felipe
Ben DeSoto
‘Understanding
Poverty’ exhibit
DeSoto, Ben
Tecumseh
Escalating U.S.
Poverty Rate Sends
Shockwaves
NBC Learn
Knock Knock
Beaty, Daniel
StoryCorps:
Growing up Poor
Rueda, Noe and Alex
Fernandez
StoryCorps: I
Needed Help
Hernandez, Gus and
Siddiqi Hansoti
StoryCorps: It was
Never a Slum to Me
Jacques, Carol
The Power of Words
Purplefeather
tolerance.org
PERSPECTIVES FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA
TEACHING TOLERANCE
A Literacy-based Anti-bias Curriculum
IMMIGRATION
Always Running
Rodriguez, Luis J.
Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights,
1948
United Nations
Echoes
Mora, Pat
La Linea
Jaramillo, Ann
Illegal Immigrants
Dam, Arend van
A Priceless Lesson
in Humility
Morales, Felipe
I Am Divided
I Learn America
I Am Tired of
Learning New
Languages
I Learn America
StoryCorps:
Fighting to Stay in
School
Mendez, Sylvia and
Sandra Mendez
Duran
StoryCorps:
Mother Enrolled
Me in School
Villanueva, Lourdes
and Roger Villanueva
StoryCorps: When
Sanjay Brought
Home a Girl
Konur, Sulochana
and Melissa Konur
The Christmas I
Will Never Forget
I Learn America
Extremism
Hajjaj, Emad
My Illustrated
History
Singh, Vishavjit
Sikh Eyechart for
America
Singh, Vishavjit
Stand Up Singh
Singh, Vishavjit
What’s Under the
Turban
Singh, Vishavjit
I Am Divided
I Learn America
Religious
Discrimination
for Learning and
Development
Training
Training4Ltd
StoryCorps: Father,
Daughter and the
Holocaust
Fisher, Debbie and
Terrence Hicks
The Convert
Chicago Public Media
RELIGION
Danger on my
Doorstep
Schubert, Linda
The burden of being
a young American
Muslim
Woldt, Hailey
Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights,
1948
United Nations
© 2015 Teaching Tolerance
tolerance.org
PERSPECTIVES FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA
TEACHING TOLERANCE
A Literacy-based Anti-bias Curriculum
ABILITY
An Open Letter to Ann Coulter
Stephens, John Franklin
Disability Etiquette
Disability Rights and Resources
Just Peace: A Message of Hope
Stepanek, Mattie
A Priceless Lesson in Humility
Morales, Felipe
StoryCorps: Hasiyna Opens Up
Price, Hasiyna and Danette Banks
StoryCorps: I Lost My Voice
Foreman, Rene and Michelle
Foreman
StoryCorps: Living with
Dyslexia
Plasse, Sean and Blanche
Podhajski
StoryCorps: The Armor of a
Wheelchair
Page, Vicky and Terrance Hicks
The Power of Words
Purplefeather
COMMUNITY
Ninth Ward
Rhodes, Jewell
Parker
Only One Me
Mauricette, Sean
(aka SUBLIMINAL)
Shoulders
Nye, Naomi Shihab
Bullying
Bagley, Pat
The Tank Man
Franklin, Stuart
Raised By Women
Ellis, Kelly Norman
Confrontation at
the Bridge
Lawrence, Jacob
Dr. King Marches
on Washington
Associated Press
The Tank Man
Franklin, Stuart
PLACE
Choices
Angelou, Maya
“Color Guards”
with No Flags
Carter, Carl
© 2015 Teaching Tolerance
A Rare Person
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Civil Rights March
in Selma
NBC Learn
Hawai’i Pono’i
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Hawaiians Live in
Aloha
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Indian Occupation
of Alcatraz
Bourholtzer, Frank
tolerance.org
PERSPECTIVES FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA
A Literacy-based Anti-bias Curriculum
TEACHING TOLERANCE
PLACE
Kāne-wahine and
Wahine-kāne
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Kumu Hina’s
Transition
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Meet Ho’onani
Kamai
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Secret Audiotapes of
JFK Decrying Civil
Rights Violations in
Birmingham
NBC Learn
StoryCorps: It Was
Never a Slum to Me
Jacques, Carol
StoryCorps:
Segregated
Swimming Pool
Holmes, Robert
StoryCorps:
Stonewall Riots
Levine, Michael and
Matthew Merlin
© 2015 Teaching Tolerance
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TEACHING TOLERANCE
Central Text Anthology, Grades 9-12
informational
literature
visual
multi-media
RACE AND ETHNICITY
14th Amendment
U.S. Constitution
1947: Jackie
Robinson
Integrates Baseball
Bilyeu, Suzanne
1960: Sitting Down
to Take a Stand
Bilyeu, Suzanne
1961: The Freedom
Riders
Perlman, Merrill
A Very Special
Delivery
Cowan, Alison Leigh
Alien and Sedition
Acts
5th Congress of US
An Address to the
Slaves of the United
States of America
Garnet, Henry
Highland
Andrew Jackson
“Indian Removal”
Message
Jackson, Andrew
Anything We Love
Can Be Saved
(Introduction)
Walker, Alice
Beauty and Body
Image in the Media
Media Awareness
Network
© 2015 Teaching Tolerance
An Angry Black
Woman on the
Subject of the
Angry White Man
Jordan, June
Caged Bird
Angelou, Maya
I Am Everyone
Peltier, Leonard
Invisible Man,
Prologue
Ellison, Ralph
Lord, Lord, Why
Did You Make Me
Black?
Ebo, RuNett Nia
Negro Hero
Brooks, Gwendolyn
On Being Brought
from Africa to
America
Wheatley, Phyllis
On Liberty and
Slavery
Horton, George
Moses
Saffron Dreams
Abdullah, Shaila
What Is The What
Eggars, Dave
Confrontation at
the Bridge
Lawrence, Jacob
Dr. King Marches
on Washington
Associated Press
I Am a Man
Copley, Richard L.
Illegal Immigrants
Dam, Arend van
Fannie Lou Hamer’s
Testimony Before
the Credentials
Committee at the
1964 Democratic
Convention
NBC Learn
Marcus Garvey and
the Universal Negro
Improvement
Association
NBC Learn
tolerance.org
PERSPECTIVES FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA
A Literacy-based Anti-bias Curriculum
TEACHING TOLERANCE
RACE AND ETHNICITY
Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka,
Kansas
Warren, Earl
Can I See Some ID?
Smith, Patricia
Chinese Exclusion Act
47th Congress
Civil Rights Act of 1964
88th Congress
Commonwealth Club
Address
Chavez, Cesar
Covering
Yoshino, Kenji
Decision No. 633:
Promoting Tolerance ans
Media Freedom on the
Internet
Organization for Security and
Co-operation in Europe
DREAM Act of 2011
Vazquez, Laura
Eleanor Roosevelt Resigns
from the DAR
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Executive Order 10730
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Executive Order 9981
Truman, Harry S.
General Order 143
Townsend, E.D.
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln, Abraham
Hope, Despair and Memory
Wiesel, Elie
I Have a Dream
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
I Investigate Lynchings
White, Walter
Inaugural Editorial
Garrison, William Lloyd
Insult or Honor?
Majerol, Veronica
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Intorduction to the Black
Panther Party Survival
Programs
Black Panther Party
Letter from a Birmingham
Jail
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Nobody Dared Her to Do It
Koestline, Noel, Rev. and Rev.
Spencer Turnipseed
Notes on Situation in
Birmingham, Alabama
5/12/1963
Kennedy, John F.
On Whose Shoulders I
Stand
Walker, Deborah J.
Orval Faubus Speech,
September 1958
Faubus, Orval
Cohen, Patricia
The Negro’s Place in World
Reorganization
Garvey, Marcus
The Reich Citzenship Law
of September 15, 1935
German Reichstag
The White House: A
Slave’s View
Swarns, Rachel L
We Lived in a Bubble
MacQueen, Elizabeth
What to the Slave is the
Fourth of July?
Douglass, Frederick
White Privilege:
Unpacking the Invisible
Knapsack
McIntosh, Peggy
Out of Auschwitz
Pisar, Samuel
President Obama’s
Address on the 50th
Anniversary of Bloody
Sunday
Obama, Barack
Prison Writings
Peltier, Leonard
Proclamation: To the
Great White Father
(November, 1969)
American Indian Movement
(AIM)
Race Against Time
Dewan, Shaila
Race Matters
Liptak, Adam
Rebel Yells
Brown, Robbie
Remembering My Four
Friends 50 Years Later
Ellis, Glenn
Rescue Mission
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GENDER
1920: Women Get
the Vote
Roberts, Sam
Anything We Love
Can Be Saved
(Introduction)
Walker, Alice
Beauty and Body
Image in the Media
Media Awareness
Network
Covering
Yoshino, Kenji
Declaration of
Sentiments, Seneca
Falls Conference,
1848
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Gawking, Gaping,
Staring
Clare, Eli
Gender Trouble
Williams, Patricia
Our Gender is
Soldier
Norland, Rod
Redstockings
Manifesto
Redstockings
Should Women Be
Allowed in Combat?
Ross, Catherine and
Elaine Donnelly
The Problem That
Has No Name
Friedan, Betty
We Lived in a
Bubble
MacQueen, Elizabeth
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A Room of One’s
Own
Woolf, Virginia
Seventeen Syllables
Yamamoto, Hisaye
The Yellow
Wallpaper
Gilman, Charlotte
Perkins
The Awakening
Mayer, Henry
A Rare Person
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Being Different Is Like
a Part-Time Job
I Learn America
Gend-o-meter
Chasnoff, Debra
Gender Spectrum
Chasnoff, Debra
Hand Me Downs
Kay, Sarah
Hawai’i Pono’i
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Hawaiians Live in Aloha
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
I Am Divided
I Learn America
Kāne-wahine and
Wahine-kāne
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Kumu Hina’s Transition
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Meet Ho’onani Kamai
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
StoryCorps: In the
Wrong Body
GrantSmith, Les, Scot
GrantSmith, Thea
GrantSmith, and Amanda
GrantSmith
What Do You Know?
Six to twelve year olds
talk about gays and
lesbians
Welcoming Schools
White House Data
Paints New Portrait
of Modern American
Women
Guthrie, Savannah
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LGBT
1982: The AIDS
Epidemic
Altman, Lawrence K.
Alabama Sanctity
of Marriage
Amendment
Alabama State
Legislature
An Act to Protect
Religious Freedom
and Recognize
Equality in Civil
Marriage
Vermont General
Assembly
Covering
Yoshino, Kenji
Defense of Marriage
Act
104th Congress
Facing the School
Dropout Dilemma:
The interaction of
sexual orientation
with school dropout
rates
American Psycological
Association
Gawking, Gaping,
Staring
Clare, Eli
Gender Trouble
Williams, Patricia
Paragraph 175
German Reichstag
Remarks in
Recognition of
International
Human Rights Day
Clinton, Hillary
Rodham
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Gay Marriage
Sack, Steve
A Rare Person
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Gend-o-meter
Chasnoff, Debra
Gender Spectrum
Chasnoff, Debra
Hawai’i Pono’i
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Hawaiians Live in
Aloha
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Kāne-wahine and
Wahine-kāne
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Kumu Hina’s
Transition
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Meet Ho’onani
Kamai
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
School Is a Place to
Ask Questions
I Learn America
StoryCorps: In the
Wrong Body
GrantSmith, Les, Scot
GrantSmith, Thea
GrantSmith, and
Amanda GrantSmith
StoryCorps: Mom
Read the Mail
Hoskins, Nathan and
Sally Evans
What Do You
Know?
Six to twelve year
olds talk about gays
and lesbians
Welcoming Schools
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CLASS
Can I See Some ID?
Smith, Patricia
Commonwealth
Club Address
Chavez, Cesar
Introduction to
the Black Panther
Party Survival
Programs
Black Panther Party
Prison Writings
Peltier, Leonard
Proclamation
of the Striking
Textile Workers of
Lawrence
Workers of Lawrence,
Massachusetts
The Communist
Manifesto
Marx, Karl and
Frederick Engels
The Problem That
Has No Name
Friedan, Betty
An Angry Black
Woman on the
Subject of the
Angry White Man
Jordan, June
Eight Hours
Blanchard, I.G.
I Am Everyone
Peltier, Leonard
Life in the Iron
Mills
Davis, Rebecca
Harding
The Jungle
Sinclair, Upton
What Is the What
Eggars, Dave
Average Household
Income
Gilson, Dave and
Carolyn Perot
Boys in a Cigar
Factory
Hine, Lewis
Crazy Versus
Eccentric
Singer, Andy
Flint Sit-Down
Strike
Unknown
How Rich Are the
Superrich?
Gilson, Dave and
Carolyn Perot
I Am a Man
Copley, Richard L.
Percentage of
People in Poverty
in the Last Twelve
Months
U.S. Census Bureau
Ben DeSoto
‘Understanding
Poverty’ exhibit
DeSoto, Ben
Tecumseh
Escalating U.S.
Poverty Rate Sends
Shockwaves
NBC Learn
The Power of
Words
Purplefeather
White House
Data Paints New
Portrait of Modern
American Women
Guthrie, Savannah
We Lived in a
Bubble
MacQueen, Elizabeth
White Privilege:
Unpacking the
Invisible Knapsack
McIntosh, Peggy
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TEACHING TOLERANCE
A Literacy-based Anti-bias Curriculum
IMMIGRATION
Alien and Sedition
Acts
5th Congress of US
Chinese Exclusion
Act
47th Congress
Civil Rights Act of
1964
88th Congress
Commonwealth
Club Address
Chavez, Cesar
Covering
Yoshino, Kenji
DREAM Act of 2011
Vazquez, Laura
Executive Order
9981
Truman, Harry S.
Janet Napolitano
Press Release, June
2013
Department of
Homeland Security
My Life in the
Shadows
Wences, Reyna
The Great
Immigration
Debate
Smith, Patricia
Seventeen Syllables
Yamamoto, Hisaye
The Fire Horse Girl
Honeyman, Kay
What Is the What
Eggars, Dave
Illegal Immigrants
Dam, Arend van
I Am Divided
I Learn America
I Am Tired of
Learning New
Languages
I Learn America
The Christmas I
Will Never Forget
I Learn America
I Am Everyone
Peltier, Leonard
On Being Brought
from Africa to
America
Wheatley, Phyllis
Saffron Dreams
Abdullah, Shaila
Extremism
Hajjaj, Emad
My Illustrated
History
Singh, Vishavjit
Sikh Eyechart for
America
Singh, Vishavjit
I Am Divided
I Learn America
The Convert
Chicago Public Media
RELIGION
An Act to Protect
Religious Freedom
and Recognize
Equality in Civil
Marriage
Vermont General
Assembly
An Address to the
Slaves of the United
States of America
Garnet, Henry
Highland
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TEACHING TOLERANCE
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RELIGION
Civil Rights Act of
1964
88th Congress
Covering
Yoshino, Kenji
Creating A New
Vision Of Islam In
America
Fresh Air
Decision No.
633: Promoting
Tolerance and
Media Freedom on
the Internet
Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe
Executive Order
9981
Truman, Harry S.
Hope, Despair and
Memory
Wiesel, Elie
Out of Auschwitz
Pisar, Samuel
Stand Up Singh
Singh, Vishavjit
What’s Under the
Turban
Singh, Vishavjit
Prison Writings
Peltier, Leonard
The Reich
Citzenship Law of
September 15, 1935
German Reichstag
What is the Truth
About American
Muslims?
Interfaith Alliance
ABILITY
1982: The AIDS
Epidemic
Altman, Lawrence K.
Covering
Yoshino, Kenji
Deaf Culture
Kluth, Paula
Gawking, Gaping,
Staring
Clare, Eli
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The Power of
Words
Purplefeather
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COMMUNITY
14th Amendment
U.S. Constitution
An Excerpt from
the United States
Declaration of
Independence
Jefferson, Thomas
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln, Abraham
Preamble to the
U.S. Constitution
Philadelphia
Convention
President Obama’s
Address on the
50th Anniversary
of Bloody Sunday
Obama, Barack
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i will be chosen
kathanadhi, ramesh
Bullying
Bagley, Pat
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PLACE
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln, Abraham
I Investigate
Lynchings
White, Walter
Letter from a
Birmingham Jail
King, Martin Luther,
Jr.
Nobody Dared Her
to Do It
Koestline, Noel, Rev.
and Rev. Spencer
Turnipseed
Notes on Situation
in Birmingham,
Alabama 5/12/1963
Kennedy, John F.
On Whose
Shoulders I Stand
Walker, Deborah J.
President Obama’s
Address on the
50th Anniversary
of Bloody Sunday
Obama, Barack
Proclamation: To
the Great White
Father (November,
1969)
American Indian
Movement (AIM)
Race Against Time
Dewan, Shaila
Rebel Yells
Brown, Robbie
Remembering My
Four Friends 50
Years Later
Ellis, Glenn
We Lived in a
Bubble
MacQueen, Elizabeth
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Confrontation at
the Bridge
Lawrence, Jacob
Dr. King Marches
on Washington
King, Martin Luther,
Jr.
A Rare Person
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Hawai’i Pono’i
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Hawaiians Live in
Aloha
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Kāne-wahine and
Wahine-kāne
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Kumu Hina’s
Transition
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
Meet Ho’onani
Kamai
Hamer, Dean and Joe
Wilson
tolerance.org