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Public schools play a crucial role in democracy, providing the literacy, critical thinking skills and common-good values essential for participation in the democratic process. Learn, teach and advocate for children with the resources in LFJ’s series on education justice. Every child in the United States has a right to an equitable (fair and just) public education.
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Teaching and Learning Hard History
Education for Liberation
As a young civil rights activist working on voting rights, Charles E. Cobb conceptualized the idea of Freedom Schools during his involvement in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. This video features a conversation between Mr. Cobb and historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries, recorded at Mr. Cobb’s home in Jacksonville, Florida, in October 2025.
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Why the 1965 Voting Rights Act Is Crucial for Democracy
The 1965 Voting Rights Act — a landmark federal law that removed barriers and affirmed the right to vote for millions of African Americans — remains essential for ensuring equal access to the ballot.
Introduction to Civics for Democracy
Building a democracy for the 21st century requires transformation built on three essential principles: inclusive participation, institutional accountability and equitable representation.
Out of the Ashes: Building a New American Democracy
The erosion of institutions to safeguard democracy is an invitation to imagine a new democracy resilient enough to resist authoritarianism and inclusive enough to serve all.
How We Got Here and How We Move Forward (With Our Heads Held High)
Bold action and transformative interventions are necessary to reimagine and create an education system that ends harm and advances justice and racial equity.
Permission To Learn: Cultivating Lifelong Learning in Students and Educators
Reimagining education to cultivate curiosity, questioning, dialogue and critical thinking can develop students’ lifelong learning disposition and capacity for meaningful participation in a democratic society.
Support Democracy and Education Justice
To build a multiracial inclusive democracy requires educating for liberation and civic and political participation across the South and the nation.
