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Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, a New York-based national organization founded in 1974, protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans. AALDEF focuses on critical issues affecting Asian Americans, including immigrant rights, voting rights and democracy, economic justice for workers, educational equity, housing and environmental justice, and the elimination of anti-Asian…

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Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder

Includes lessons teaching students how to be their own (photo)journalists and tied to investigating current events/news/issues. Some examples are “Interview Analysis: How Can We Save Black and Brown Lives During a Pandemic?”, which looks at demographic data to understand the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, and “Exploring Media Representation and Bias in Photography” to teach youth…

Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s Learning Together

The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center is working on building out resources to support education in the classroom around Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. There are currently only a few entries but some of them are very rich, for example the collection of photographs around the transcontinental railroad. Online:  https://smithsonianapa.org/learn/learn-archives/

The 1619 Project

A Pulitzer-prize winning project focused on the history of slavery. Includes a few lesson plans and other curricular resources, and some are tied fairly closely to New York Times articles. Online:  https://pulitzercenter.org/lesson-plan-grouping/1619-project-curriculum

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Smithsonian Open Access

“Smithsonian Open Access allows anyone to download, share, and reuse nearly three million 2D and 3D digital items from the Smithsonian’s collections. These assets may be used for any purpose without causing or contributing to copyright infringement. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, gardens, and…