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Learning For Justice: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center

Formerly called Teaching Tolerance, this project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, founded in 1991 to prevent the growth of hate, provides free resources to educators which emphasize social justice and anti-bias.

Tide recedes on a quiet beach beneath a rocky cliff and a cloudy sky. Text reads, "The Forgotten Slavery of Our Ancestors."
12 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Young middle eastern boy sitting outside smiles at camera. Caption. And I am from Philadelphia.
4 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Sepia photo of teenage girl from movie, One Survivor Remembers. Caption. And it was sort of a very, very special, memorable day.
41 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man in beige ranger-style hat, wearing white collared shirt and necktie. Caption. And it's an amazing experience, teaching people about nature.
3 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Young girl wearing a white hoodie raises her hand slightly and looks up. Behind her are a few colorful posters. Caption. Just a little rope across a house to house.
4 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
ASL
Slide shows Key Concept 1. Slavery, which Europeans practiced before they invaded the Americas, was important to all colonial powers and existed in all North American colonies.
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 1
4 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Still image from: Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery (Concept 10)
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 10
4 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Slide shows Key Concept 2. Slavery and the slave trade were central to the development and growth of the colonial economies and what is now the United States.
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 2
4 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Slide shows Key Concept 3. Protections for slavery were embedded in the founding documents; enslavers dominated the federal government, Supreme Court, and Senate from 1787 through 1860.
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 3
4 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Slide shows Key Concept 4. Slavery was an institution of power, designed to create profit for enslavers and break the will of the enslaved and was a relentless quest for profit abetted by racism.
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 4
3 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Slide shows Key Concept 5. Enslaved people resisted the efforts of their enslavers to reduce them to commodities in both revolutionary and everyday ways.
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 5
5 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Slide shows Key Concept 6. The experience of slavery varied depending on time, location, crop, labor performed, size of slaveholding and gender.
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 6
5 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Still image from: Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery (Concept 7)
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 7
4 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Still image from: Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery (Concept 8)
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 8
4 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Still image from: Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery (Concept 9)
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 9
4 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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