Posts by HHRC
May 30 to June 1 of 1921: A Black community was booming until it was burned to the ground
On May 30, 1921, rumors about an encounter between a black teenage boy and a white teenage girl began to circulate throughout the city of Tulsa. The boy was arrested and an investigation ensued. After an incendiary report in the Tulsa Tribune, African Americans who had confronted a white mob retreated to the Greenwood District, a wealthy and affluent black business community in Tulsa.
Read MoreHHRC Awards Lawrence Alan Spiegel scholarship to Hermon HS Senior Neily Raymond
This year’s winner of the Lawrence Alan Spiegel Scholarship is Hermon High School Valedictorian Neily Raymond. Neily serves as Editor for both Key Club and Student Council. She is heavily involved in performing arts, participating in the Hermon Theatre program and Chamber Choir. In addition, she is a member of National Honor Society, the Mu Alpha Theta mathematics honor society, and is a three-star thespian in International Thespian Society. She has been named one of two 2020 U.S. Presidential Scholars for the state of Maine. Neily will attend the University of Maine in the fall, where she plans to double major in English and Music.
Read MoreMay 21 is World Cultural Diversity Day. Here are some resources for Teachers and Students.
If you’re looking for resources or assignments to give students to help learn more about World Cultural Diversity Day and how cultures help shape who we are, you’ve come to the right place!
Read MoreNelson Mandela on Human Rights
“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” – Nelson Mandela
Read MoreHHRC History: Students write poems after hearing Holocaust survivors
In 1986 Linda Voss, a 6th-grade teacher at China Elementary School created a unit entitled, “The Hatred and Prejudice Inflicted Upon Anne Frank and Other Jews of Her Time –…
Read MoreEleanor Roosevelt on Human Rights
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the…
Read MoreFred Rogers on Helping Children
“Anyone who does anything to help a child in [their] life is a hero to me.” – Fred Rogers
Read MoreDecision Making: Introduction
May is Jewish American Heritage Month. Here are Resources for Maine teachers and students.
In April, we remembered the Holocaust. In May, we remember the history of Jewish Mainers and their contributions right here in Maine.
Read MoreThe Armenian Genocide and a Brief History of Armenians in Maine
The local Maine community began in 1896 – created by families escaping the early massacre of Armenians in Istanbul. Garabed Yeghoian, his wife Tersagel and their children were the first to arrive.
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