Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves." Euripides Greek Dramatist (c. 480-406 BC)

2. Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves." • Euripides • Greek Dramatist (c. 480-406 BC)

4. Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life." • Scheer, Wilbert E.

5. Fanfare for the Common Man American composer Aaron Copeland • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rnHpNWy7KE&feature=related • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we55QQcsvY4 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzf0rvQa4Mc&feature=related

6. What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature. -- Voltaire

8. www.visuwords.com

11. The Tolerance Project Sources of information for research - online and in the library

14. Intolerance Bigotry Obstinacy Narrow-mindedness Ignorance Racism Hate Prejudice Anti-semitism Discrimination Bias Unfairness Apartheid Small-mindedness Vocabulary

15. Developing your topic • Narrow the focus: choose a topic that is of interest to you • Define it • Construct the thesis/outline • Gather information that is authoritative, current, of high quality, balanced, without bias, from good sources.

16. Wikipedia • In formal research, wikipedia is not sited as a source of information.

17. Beginning your research • Define your topic of research • Determine the information that you need • Decide where to locate the information • Outline your strategy for acquiring, synthesizing and analyzing that information

18. Using print materials in the library • Encyclopedias for general background information and bibliographies; single-subject encyclopedias • Individual biographies, e.g., Rosa Parks, Mahatma Gandhi, etc. • Materials on ethnic groups in the United States • Reference materials on multiculturalism • Historical atlases • Dictionaries – finding definitions

19. A Path to Find a Topic for Research

21. Research by Time and Place • Choosing a topic by geographical region • e.g. North America ( Native Americans, African Americans, American immigrants, Chinese, Japanese, Irish, Jews, Catholics, etc.), South America (indigenous peoples), Central America, Africa (South Africa and apartheid, Genocide in Rwanda and Darfur),…. continued on next slide

22. Research by Time and Place • Western and Eastern Europe (Armenians Genocide, the Holocaust, France and les Pieds Noirs, Muslims…), Asia (Tibetans, Hmong, Khmer Rouge in Cambodia), Oceania (Aborigines); Central America (social exclusion and racial discrimination of indigenous peoples)

23. Possible Topics to Explore • Religious conflict: Darfur, Algeria, the Balkans, the Middle East • Refugees; Immigrant populations • Caste system; the Untouchables • Genocide in the 20th century • Mass crimes against humanity

24. Primary Sources

26. Primary source - source created by people who actually saw or participated in an event and recorded that event or their reactions to it immediately after the event. • Secondary source - source created by someone either not present when the event took place or removed by time from the event.

27. Primary Sources • Using primary documents to support your research • Speeches; excerpts • Legislation; executive orders; court rulings • Maps & images • Editorials • Political cartoons • Photographs

28. Chinese Exclusion Act of the 19th century Relocation of Japanese Executive Order (Internment Camps during WWII) Voting Rights Act Architectural Barriers Act Examples of Primary Source Documents

29. Library of Congress • American Memory Project • www.loc.gov

30. The United States Archive • www.ourdocuments.gov.

31. Examples of web sites that focus on issues of intolerance • Philip Randolph Pullman Porter The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was the first African American labor union in the country to win a collective bargaining agreement with a major U.S. corporation in 1937. At the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum site, learn about the legacy of A. Philip Randolph and the contributions made by African Americans to America's labor history and their subsequent influence on the Civil Rights Movement. www.aphiliprandolphmuseum.org • The Densho Project The Project works with teachers, scholars, students and documentary filmmakers to educate and inspire action for equity. A curriculum co-developed with Stanford University helps students explore issues of democracy, intolerance, wartime hysteria and the responsibilities of citizenship in an increasingly global society. www.densho.org

32. Organizations • Native American Inter-Tribal Organizations • The Anti-Defamation League • The NAACP • ACLU • United Farm Workers

34. International Criminal Court • http://www.icc-cpi.int/Menus/ICC?lan=en-GB

35. I CARE’S Crosspoint Anti-racism • http://www.magenta.nl/crosspoint/

37. Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report and Research • http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/intrep.jsp

39. Black Separatist Christian Identity General Hate Ku Klux Klan Neo-Confederate Neo-Nazi Racist Skinhead White Nationalist » Read a list of hate incidents All hate groups have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics. • This list was compiled using hate group publications and websites, citizen and law enforcement reports, field sources and news reports. • Hate group activities can include criminal acts, marches, rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting or publishing. Websites appearing to be merely the work of a single individual, rather than the publication of a group, are not included in this list. Listing here does not imply a group advocates or engages in violence or other criminal activity.

40. The term 'Genocide' was coined by a jurist named Raphael Lemkin in 1944 by combining the Greek word 'genos' (race) with the Latin word 'cide' (killing). Genocide as defined by the United Nations in 1948 means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, including:(a) killing members of the group (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

42. Genocide 20th Century • Recent to Past Occurrences • Bosnia-Herzegovina: 1992-1995 - 200,000 Deaths • Rwanda: 1994 - 800,000 Deaths • Pol Pot in Cambodia: 1975-1979 - 2,000,000 Deaths • Nazi Holocaust: 1938-1945 - 6,000,000 Deaths • Rape of Nanking: 1937-1938 - 300,000 Deaths • Stalin's Forced Famine: 1932-1933 - 7,000,000 Deaths • Armenians in Turkey: 1915-1918 - 1,500,000 Deaths

43. The Michigan Electronic Databases • http://firstsearch.oclc.org/

47. Michigan Electronic Library • http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/lom_sallco • Password- pilots

49. A collection of web sites related to tolerance • http://www.ccsf.edu/Resources/Tolerance/res.html

50. MLA Citation Guides Online • Create your List of Works Cited