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PENI

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Public Enemy Number 1 is a large white supremacist gang based in the prisons and on the streets of California. Its most common symbol is simply a shortened version of its own name, such as PENI or PEN1. Members may also refer to the gang as the Peni Death Squad or PDS, thus PDS is also a common tattoo.

ALTERNATE NAMES: Peni Death Squad, PDS, Peni, PEN1, Public Enemy Number 1

Sacred Separatist Group

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The Sacred Separatist Group (SSG) is a Missouri-based white supremacist prison gang. The group's "patch" tattoo consists of a shield over a crossed sword and battleaxe, with the initials SSG inside. Typically, the letters SS in those initials are rendered as lightning bolts.

ALTERNATE NAMES: SSG

Saxon Knights

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The Saxon Knights are a large, Indiana-based white supremacist prison gang. Their primary symbol is a shield tattoo, with a shield emblem superimposed over a sword, a warhammer, and a battleaxe. The shield has four sections, two of which include the letters "S" and "K." A third section usually contains a knight's helmet. The fourth section is sometimes left blank and sometimes contains one of a number of other symbols.

Silent Aryan Warriors

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The Silent Aryan Warriors (SAW) are a large white supremacist gang based in Utah. Their primary tattoo consists of an Iron Cross with SS lighting bolts and a curved swastika at the center. Four Totenkopfs surround the Iron Cross, while around the image are the German phrases "für immer weiss" and "für immer stolz," which translate to "forever white" and "forever proud."

ALTERNATE NAMES: SAW

Soldiers of Aryan Culture

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Soldiers of Aryan Culture (SAC) is a large Utah-based white supremacist prison gang. The two symbols most commonly used by the gang are 1) the group's initials, SAC, and 2) a swastika interwoven with an Iron Cross.

ALTERNATE NAMES: SAC

Solid Wood Soldiers

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The Solid Wood Soldiers are a Texas-based white supremacist prison gang. Their primary tattoo consists of the initials SWS, with the two S's represented by lightning bolts. Above the initials appears the image of a bear claw, with the number 4 in the middle and sometimes the letters HCRL.

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Southern Brotherhood

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The Southern Brotherhood is a large, Alabama-based white supremacist prison gang. Read more about the Brotherhood's most common symbol, the shield tattoo.

Unforgiven

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The Unforgiven are a large white supremacist prison gang based in the Florida prison system. Their main symbol consists of an interlocking Iron Cross and swastika, with SS lightning bolts in the center.

Universal Aryan Brotherhood

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The Universal Aryan Brotherhood is a white supremacist prison gang based in the Oklahoma prison system, one of several such gangs that have used "brotherhood" in their title. Despite the gang's name, it has no connection to the original Aryan Brotherhood, which is based in the California and federal prison systems.

WAR (Arkansas prison gang)

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White Aryan Resistance (WAR) is the name of a large, Arkansas-based white supremacist prison gang, who borrowed the name from California white supremacist Tom Metzger. Their main symbol is an elaborate pyramid-shaped tattoo that contains symbols representing rank and other meanings.

ALTERNATE NAMES: White Aryan Resistance (gang)

White Knights

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The White Knights are a Texas-based white supremacist prison gang (also active in Arizona in recent years). Their main symbol consists of a knight's helmet containing a skull. Behind the skull are two crossed swords, while the words "white" and "knight" appear on "rockers" above and below the skull.

On-Screen Diversity: Why Visibility in Media Matters

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GRADE LEVEL: Elementary School, Middle School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language Does Entertainment Represent Our Increasingly Diverse Society?In recent years, we have seen some progress made in terms of the diversity and representation of characters and actors we see in movies and on television. For example, over the last sixteen years, the percentage of Asian characters with speaking roles increased from 3.4% to 15.9%. However, there is still much…

October 15, 2019

Diverse Books Matter

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Teach students about the importance of diverse literature and engage them in a study on the diversity of books in their classroom or school library.

November 03, 2017

Slurs, Offensive Jokes and How to Respond

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Color Speech Bubbles with censored swearing words

Teach students about why slurs are and why they are harmful, helping them explore possible responses to slurs when they hear them.

May 04, 2017

8 Ideas for Teaching National Hispanic Heritage Month

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GRADE LEVEL: Elementary School, Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Language, Speaking and Listening Commemorating National Hispanic Heritage Month In commemoration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we present this resource to help teachers engage students in thinking broadly and critically about the Hispanic American experience in all of its complexity. In highlighting the significant events as well as people that have made a substantial contribution…

August 19, 2016

Voting Rights Then and Now

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GRADE LEVEL: High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening Racial Discrimination and Safeguarding the Right to Vote In August 2015, we commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act which was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. The Voting Rights Act is landmark federal legislation that was enacted during the Civil Rights Movement and was intended to prevent racial discrimination in voting. Prior to that, even though Black…

July 22, 2015

10 Ideas for Teaching Black History Month

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Bayard Rustin Speaking with Kids before Demonstration

Engage students in activities that get them to think broadly and critically about the Black experience in all of its complexity.

January 08, 2015

Aryan Brotherhood of Texas

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ALTERNATE NAMES: Texas Aryan Brotherhood, ABTGroup Status: Active The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) is the largest white supremacist prison gang in Texas and possibly in the United States. It is also one of the most violent, having committed many murders. It is active both behind bars and on the streets across Texas and in neighboring states. Despite its name, the ABT is a group separate from and independent of the "original" Aryan Brotherhood, which is present primarily in the…

ALTERNATE NAMES: Texas Aryan Brotherhood, ABT

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Civil Rights: Relevancy for Today

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GRADE LEVEL: Elementary School, Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, History/Social Studies In commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, this curriculum for grades 3–12 provides grade-specific lessons, resources and extension activities to provide your students opportunities to examine civil rights in the United States past and present. The lessons provide an opportunity for students to delve deeper into Martin Luther King Jr…

November 12, 2014

70+ Years Later: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education

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Brown v. Board of Education School Segregation Protest

GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Speaking and Listening, Language “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” These are the words of the landmark Supreme Court decision on May 17, 1954 that declared segregated schools unconstitutional. More than seventy years later, even though much progress has been made, there are…

May 15, 2014