Pursuing Justice

My document is Bill Clinton's apology letter to those affected by Japanese American internment.

Jay Barry


Clinton Apology Letter to Japanese Americans

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Jay Barry
High School History
Arlington

I thought I wrote this to you but I here we go again.
I had a primary source about Bacon and Berkeley from the Colonial Times. Here is one  resource
Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People.
The other source that I had was of Governor Berkeley.
Berkeley's Picture.
Hope you love them!!
Joanne

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Joanne Weltman
Chickering School
Dover, MA

here  is my example  of my file and url


Clinton Apology Letter to Japanese Americans



Clinton Apology Letter to Japanese Americans

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Jay Barry
High School History
Arlington

Here's my file

Indian


Here's my URL
The Indian Reorganization Act

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Zachary Simmons

Here is my primary source file:


My primary source

Also, on the web, here's my link:

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Joe Demo
High School History
Duxbury High

Hi Chris,


Here is a link to the document from the women's suffrage "Sentinels of Liberty" campaign online

Here is the link to the document in my file area

primary source

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Kristin Arabasz
Arlington High School
History

Dear Chris -- Here's my file and link

Declaration of Sentiments


You could find the whole document on the web.


this is a new link to Declaration of Sentiments at another site.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/wori/declaration.htm

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Susan Swan
Winchester HighSchool
AP English (World literature)

Hi all,

The documents that I have included are primary sources about the creation of Native American Boarding Schools in the United States.  These schools -- which existed from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s -- were established in an attempt to re-educate Native American children and make them more "Americanized."  Students who attended were given new names, new clothing, were forbidden from speaking their native languages, and were forced to attend Christian church services.

This issue is of special significance to me because I started my teaching career on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and saw first-hand the disasterous consequences that this educational policy had on Native communities today.

Below you will find photographs demonstrating the assimilation practices of the schools and well as the justification for the creation of such schools, as given by Captain Richard Pratt.


Pictures from Native American Boarding Schools

Kill the Indian, Save the Man

Enjoy!
-Kate

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Kate Leslie
Brookline High School
History Department

This document is an intellectual discussion a of citizen’s relationship to a government in which the citizen finds fault. It deals with the moral and ethical issues of a citizen’s allegiance to a state which the citizen believes is acting contrary to accepted moral standards. Though written in 1849, Thoreau’s description of civilized resistance to oppressive government still holds true today and should be read by all Americans who hold dear the revolutionary spirit from which our nation was born.

Link to H.D. Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" 1849


Civil Disobedience Word Document

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Christopher P. Galvin
Social Studies Dept.
Marshfield High School

Hi all,

Free speech is the most powerful instrument American democracy offers its citizens. To neglect the practice of free speech is to abdicate that freedom to the forces that dominate American discourse, American thought. A journalism class, primarily, is an exercise in empowering students to use their Constitutionally-protected freedom of speech to address, genuously and publicly, the decisions that affect their educations, their citizenship, and their lives.

Attached here are two pieces of journalism in which my students participated, either as writers, contributors, or interviewees. The first is a story two students wrote about a dangerous driving school that was graduating teen drivers with minimal or incomplete training. The story appeared in our local weekly, the Winchester Star:

http://www.wickedlocal.com/winchester/archive/x1908589140

The second is an NECN story about Winchester's decision to hold school on Good Friday. School was open, but only about a third of the teachers and a couple hundred students showed up. I ended up being interviewed for this story, which I would normally try to avoid, but, like Doc Brown reading Marty McFly's letter from the future, I figured, "what the hell." The story raises questions about how we make decisions as a school, and the role of religion in education.

http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/Winchester-schools-criticized-for-not-recognizing-Good/1206136782.html

Public debate is prologue to public justice. The Waterfield story resulted in the the school mending its ways. The impact of the Good Friday story remains to be felt, but I'm betting the argument ain't over.

CM

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Chris Miller
English and Journalism Teacher
Winchester High School

    This is my primary source on what justice means to me personally.  The link below is a picture of me at my master’s graduation.  The next link is a picture of a girl in Sri Lanka not afforded with the opportunities I have been given.  The reason I’ve chosen these two pictures is because they paint a very different picture of people who have pretty similar ethnic backgrounds and perhaps similar family culture, yet very different lives due to their location and life opportunities.


My Graduation Picture


Child Labor in China

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Julie Ngoc Duong McManuis
Wilson Middle School
US History & English

I chose to psot a document about Peter Slaem, an African-American slave who fought at Lexington and Concord and the Battle of Bunker Hill.  Here's the link:

Also, here's the link to the document I wrote. 

Enjoy. 


Peter Salem and Bunker Hill

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Gregory J. Lagan
Framingham High School
History and Social Sciences

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3805/is_200301/ai_n9222497

I decided to switch my justice related topic to technology and first amendment rights. As such, I am uploading a different primary source.  This link will lead you to an article from the Georgetown Law Journal, January, 2003.  While this is somewhat outdated, seeing as the Internet makes leaps and bounds each day, I still found this article particularly useful in that it cites many court cases which speak to the evidence of cases involving technology and first amendment issues.  

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3805/is_200301/ai_n9222497

Erin Eriksen

 

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Erin Eriksen
9th Grade World History
12th Grade Sociology
Natick High School

This article discusses the same complex and challenging question that many courts are dealing with today in regard to the First Amendment and the Internet.  Questions include:  what challenges does this present? should limitations be set on free speech in the context of electronic media?

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/speech/internet/overview.aspx

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Erin Eriksen
9th Grade World History
12th Grade Sociology
Natick High School

Here's the poem "I, too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes. 
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15615

Things to think about -- have we achieved Hughes' dream? Where was his hope coming from? Who was he writing to?  What would his audience's reaction be?

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Shannah Weeden
High School English
Newton North High School