Who Belongs? #1

This page provides access to the New York City Department of Education Seal of Civic Readiness Handbook for the 2024-2025 school year. The New York State Seal of Civic Readiness (NYSSCR) is a formal recognition that a student has demonstrated the civic knowledge, skills, mindsets, and experiences necessary to become an actively engaged member of t...

The Department of Social Studies and Civics collaborated with scholars Trevor R. Getz, Rachael Hill, and Hewan Semon and artists Fanuel Leul and Tsegaw Tesfa to create Jali: Literature of Africa and the Diaspora #1, a Hidden Voices: Stories of the Global African Diaspora comic under the Civics for All Comics Group imprint. 

This comic was created in 2014 for the New York Historical Society exhibition Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion. Meet the Chin Family has been made available digitally by the Civics for All Comics Group as part of the Hidden Voices: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in United States History project for the school year 2023–2024. This grap...

The Haitian Revolution was a global event. To tell its story in comic form, author Laurent Dubois and illustrator Rocky Cotard use a combination of text and image to capture the scale and complexity of that history. This comic tells the glorious history of the Haitian Revolution. The enslavement of people and resistance to enslavement took many for...