Lesson Plan
Seeing the World Differently
This lesson plan explores Avraham Rabby's advocacy for blind U.S. Foreign Service Officers, highlighting his efforts in promoting equal access for all, regardless of their disability.
Advocacy
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Judith Heumann’s Business Card
Judith Heumann was an internationally recognized leader in the disability community and a lifelong civil rights advocate for disadvantaged people. She was known to many as the “Mother of the Disability Rights Movement.” Heumann contracted polio as a child and used a wheelchair most of her life. Her experiences led her to…
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Judith Heumann’s UN ID Card
Judith Heumann was an internationally recognized leader in the disability community and a lifelong civil rights advocate for disadvantaged people. She was known to many as the “Mother of the Disability Rights Movement.” Heumann contracted polio as a child and used a wheelchair most of her life. Her experiences led her to…
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Diplomacy Classroom: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy
Human rights has not always been a foreign policy priority. However, over the past 100 years, human rights have become a growing part of foreign…
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Public Program
Past and Present LGBTQIA+ History at the U.S. Department of State
In honor of October’s LGBTQIA+ History Month, join us for a conversation with glifaa on the history of LGBTQIA+ advocacy at the State Department, including history in the making.
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Story of Diplomacy
Avraham Rabby: How a Disability Rights Advocate Opened the Door for Blind Diplomats
Avraham Rabby was a lifelong advocate for the rights of those with disabilities, particularly vision loss. Rabby was completely blind, having lost his sight as…
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Story of Diplomacy
Race, Citizenship, and Red Scares: Robert Robinson and Foreign Service Officer Bill Davis
When U.S. citizens travel abroad with their official documents, like visas and passports, they expect to be able to travel freely. And they also expect…
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Diplomacy Classroom: Race, Citizenship, and Red Scares
In this episode of Diplomacy Classroom, NMAD’s Public Historian, Dr. Alison Mann, shares the story of Robert Robinson, a Black American who unwillingly spent 44…
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Public Program
Stuck Behind the Iron Curtain: Race, Citizenship, and Red Scares
Join NMAD on February 15th to commemorate Black History Month through the story of Robert Robinson, a Black American who unwillingly spent 44 years in Soviet Russia. Bill Davis, a Black Foreign Service Officer, assisted in his repatriation.
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USAID Personal Hygiene Kit Items
Items from personal hygiene kit, c. 2014. A “personal hygiene kit” is a box of basic hygiene supplies, utilized by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to help prevent outbreaks of communicable illness in disaster areas across the globe.
