Strive for racial justice within your classroom community with help from an 80-page resource guide. Five modules move scholars through thoughtful, and reflective grand conversations to making a plan, then taking action. Learners write...

This lesson on Victorian Literature focuses on Charles Dickens, a popular English novelist whose works provide insight into Victorian culture as his novels attack the social injustices and hypocrisy of the period. This page offers links...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave a voice, in her poems, to many of those oppressed by contemporary injustice: child laborers, the poor, and the enslaved. In this lesson, students will give these voices dramatic form, using the techniques...

In this lesson, students learn about the muckraking journalists who exposed social injustices during the Progressive Era and what the Progressives believed. They will examine primary sources, including the works of prominent...

Focused on his personal racial and civil philosophy, Booker T. Washington moved mountains making the public aware of the injustices and inequalities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Click "Booker T. Washington...

What did it feel like to have to leave your home and possessions to live in a camp during WWII because you were a Japanese-American? Students will understand the climate of fear during this time and develop empathy toward the families...

A collection of resources about W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the NAACP, who committed his life to opposing racial and social injustices. Includes photographs, papers, information on the Niagara Movement, exhibits, timeline, and a biography...

Oxfam Canada looks to rid the world of poverty and injustice. Their official website outlines their history and their mission.

Pulitzer Prize winner John Steinbeck is the subject of this brief biography, highlighting his ability to write about the injustices in society, particularly with regard to the economic lower class. See "John Steinbeck Activities" for...

"Canterbury, Connecticut, and Little Rock, Arkansas, are links in a chain of events representing the long struggle for equal educational opportunities for African Americans. This lesson plan highlights two important historic places and...

During the worst days of segregation, the Church served as a haven for African Americans. Read two sermons by Samuel Wallace addressing the social injustices faced by African Americans in the late 1800's.

This collection uses primary sources to explore The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis.

The Multiple Pandemics and the Impact on Emotional Health: As students return to school, remediating learning loss is a high priority for school leaders and teachers. While some educators may feel better equipped to address the learning...

Read the full text of the short story "Gooseberries" by Anton Chekhov that revolves around the theme of social injustice and the suffering of those less fortunate.

Resource provides an essay describing the African Americans changing of political support from Republican to Democrat in the 1930's. Includes exerpt from archived news article.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. King sought equality and human rights for African...

This detailed biography site includes a brief analysis of the writer's work, as well as a list of suggested readings.

Inequality of wealth in both the U.S. and world is a controversial topic. This site from the Global Policy Forum contains a series of articles that address this topic. Great for student research.