From the Weekly Digest Bulletin comes this: "The Library's collections encompassing LGBTQ+ material spans centuries, including unique holdings on world famous figures as well as the lives of every day people. Oscar WIlde, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Alvin Ailey, Leonard Bernstein and silent screen star Alla Nazimova are just some of the major names and collections represented here. Laws that either target or protect gay people are also preserved. This essay explores the range and the depth of the stories these collections reveal."  English/Language Arts    Social Studies/History    Art/Music    Science    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    LGBTQ+  

This Hartford Courant article highlights the value of expanding the stories that make up U.S. history. 

Here's another article, from NBC News, that identifies states considering expanding access to Asian American Pacific Islander history and features a link to California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum.

What's happening in your state/district?

This is a great way to explore the American Folklife Center’s online resources which “include material from six continents, every U.S. State and territory”.

Scrolling down to the bottom of the Story Map I found resources on The Green Book with a link to a podcast: The Green Book and African American Travel with Candacy Taylor.  If you use the search box in the upper right you’ll also find several posts in our TPS Teachers Network referencing The Green Book.

  Folklife    American Folklife Center    The Green Book  

One of the main components of culturally relevant pedagogy that is included here is primary resources and why they are important in this context  13+    English/Language Arts    Library    Mathematics    Social Studies/History    culturally responsive teaching  .  

This Library of Congress post from the blog Inside Adams Science Technology & Business covers the role of the Red Cross and the Black Red Cross Nurses who volunteered after the Tulsa Race Massacre. Good for students to read about all efforts in the aftermath of this Massacre.

A few other posts on the Massacre in the TPS Network:

• Tulsa Race Riot, Watchman series on HBO, historic newspaper & images & a new book
• Tulsa Race Massacre: Topics in Chronicling America
• What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed
• Timely Connections: The Tulsa Race Massacre Then and Now

  Civil Rights    Tulsa    Race Massacre    Racism