National Youth Summit: Teen Resistance to Systemic Racism

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Classroom Material
Subjects
History
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Audience
Classroom Teacher / Educator
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National Youth Summit: Teen Resistance to Systemic Racism

We will host a panel discussion connecting stories of teenagers in the past fighting to address systemic injustice to those of the present. This year’s summit will be centered on the case study of Claudette Colvin—a 15-year-old Black student in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. Colvin refused to give up…