Jesse Ventura Shocks the World: Jesse Ventura Shocks the World

25 years after the pro wrestler shocked the world when elected Governor of Minnesota, it's high time to explore the people, values and experiences that shaped Jesse Ventura's path.

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Classroom Viewing Guide for Jesse Ventura Shocks the World

This guide provides discussion questions that you can use as they are or adapt them to fit your students.

Taking a Stand

This activity guide focuses on the different faces of civic engagement by highlighting themany voices of protest against forced labor.

Price of Labor

This activity guide examines the vital role that labor played in the development of the South after the Civil War as it moved toward industrialization.

Tips for Facilitating Classroom Discussions on Difficult Topics

Ten tips for facilitating classroom discussions on difficult topics.

About Slavery By Another Name in the Classroom

Tips for using Slavery By Another Name in the classroom.

Slavery By Another Name Community Viewing Guide

This community viewing guide is designed to encourage conversations between individuals of all backgrounds.

Whose Constitutional Rights?

This activity guide focuses on the Reconstruction Amendments and acts enacted after the Civil War to extend rights to blacks, but also examines how these advances were undermined.

Law and Order

This activity guide focuses on the laws and statutes enforced by Southern states after the Civil War to assert control over the freedom, mobility and labor of the newly freed blacks.