Julia Salcedo 6/10/23 Julia Salcedo 6/10/23

Cross Burning Threatens Black Sorority at Georgia Tech in 1985

Reading by Janine Gomez
A teacher shares memories of a cross burned on her sorority house lawn in college.

Josh Davidson 6/5/23 Josh Davidson 6/5/23

Mississippi Freedom Schools: A Project from the Past Suggests a Lesson for the Future

Reading by David Levine
The heart of the Freedom School endeavor, the source of its vivid and creative energy, was the insistence of its planners and teachers that learning could (and should) be shaped to serve a liberation struggle.

Josh Davidson 6/1/23 Josh Davidson 6/1/23

Each School Had a Graveyard: Native American Boarding Schools

Lesson by Deborah Menkart
Native American boarding schools were part of a U.S. federal government strategy to dominate and assimilate Indigenous Peoples. In this lesson, students examine primary text and visual sources to gain an understanding of the ways in which theories of race and assimilation affected education policies in the past.

Julia Salcedo 6/1/23 Julia Salcedo 6/1/23

Marion Barry Shares Memories with High School Students

Interview by Telling Their Stories Oral History Archives Project This interview was conducted on March 24, 2011 by students from McComb High School and the Urban School of San Francisco as part of the Telling Their Stories Oral History Archives Project.

Allison Acosta 8/5/24 Allison Acosta 8/5/24

School Colors

Podacast by Mark Winston Griffith and Max Freedman
Season one of the School Colors podcast covers the history of Ocean Hill-Brownsville in Brooklyn where Black and Puerto Rican parents tried to exercise power over their schools and they collided head first with the teachers’ union — leading to the longest teachers’ strike in U.S. history in 1968.

Allison Acosta 8/1/23 Allison Acosta 8/1/23

Introduction: Desegregation

Introduction
Throughout U.S. history, communities of color fought for their right to equal access and for human dignity and equity. Desegregation in public schools, transportation, and other accommodations was more than court cases and legal victories. Desegregation was a long struggle led by students, parents, and every day citizens. . . . They were not interested in integration, or the desire to mingle socially or otherwise with whites, but to break and reconstruct institutions that forced people of color into positions of poverty, illiteracy, and political powerlessness.

Julia Salcedo 6/30/23 Julia Salcedo 6/30/23

The March on John Philip Sousa: A Social Action Project

Teaching Reflection by Elizabeth A. Davis
Students fight to save a historic D.C. school building that was part of the Brown v. Board of Education court case.

Julia Salcedo 6/30/23 Julia Salcedo 6/30/23

Radical Equations: The Algebra Project Drawing on the Past: The Roots of Our Movement

Reading by Charles E. Cobb and Bob Moses
The Algebra Project draws on the organizing tradition of the Civil Rights Movement to help young people find their voice and achieve math literacy.

Josh Davidson 6/30/23 Josh Davidson 6/30/23

Nicolás Guillén: The Struggle against Two Racisms

Reading by Carmen Gómez García
In this essay, excerpted from a chapter on the history of Cuban social poetry, Gómez García introduces the reader to Guillén’s poetry about racism in the United States. This is an ideal text for classes on poetry, Spanish, 20th-century U.S. history, and Latin American history.

Josh Davidson 6/29/23 Josh Davidson 6/29/23

Key Issues in Race and Education Timeline

Reading by Akashi Kaul, Andrea Guiden Pittman, and Jenice L. View
A timeline highlighting key moments in the history of race and education.

Josh Davidson 6/28/23 Josh Davidson 6/28/23

Exploring the History of Freedom Schools

Lesson by Deborah Menkart and Jenice L. View
This lesson uses primary documents to introduce the history and philosophy of Freedom Schools. The lesson is inquiry-based, hands-on, and engages students in critical reflection. Therefore, students learn about Freedom Schools not only from the readings, but they also experience the pedagogy.

Allison Acosta 6/27/23 Allison Acosta 6/27/23

High School Students Lead Interactive Youth Justice Summit

Teaching Story by Erika Landberg and Vanessa Williams
The annual Youth Justice Summit at Capital City PCS in Washington, D.C. included six sessions of youth-led workshops on a variety of social justice topics including book banning, the impacts of gentrification, gun violence, disability and policing, and climate justice.

Josh Davidson 6/27/23 Josh Davidson 6/27/23

Literacy and Liberation

Reading by Septima P. Clark
The role of freedom schools and the Highlander Center in breaking down barriers and building leadership in the African American community.

Josh Davidson 6/26/23 Josh Davidson 6/26/23

Soul Power and the People

Reading by Jenice L. View
Essay recalling memories of school desegregation in 1968 Washington, D.C.

Josh Davidson 6/25/23 Josh Davidson 6/25/23

A School Year Like No Other, Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back: 1957–1962

Lesson by Bill Bigelow
Students write poetry or prose in reaction to viewing "Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back 1957-62" and two readings.

Josh Davidson 6/24/23 Josh Davidson 6/24/23

Gallery Walk on the History of Education in Mississippi Through the Lens of Race

Lesson by Julian Hipkins III and Deborah Menkart
Using textbook excerpts, data, quotes, legislation, and images, this gallery walk begins pre-Mississippi in the ancient city of Timbuktu, moves through Reconstruction and Jim Crow, and carries on to present day issues.

Josh Davidson 6/19/23 Josh Davidson 6/19/23

Teaching the 1964 New York City School Boycott

Teaching Reflection by Adam Sanchez
The largest civil rights protest wasn’t in the South, it was in New York City in 1964 when hundreds of thousands of students stayed home to protest school segregation. Here’s how today’s students reacted to a lesson about this historic boycott.

Allison Acosta 6/18/23 Allison Acosta 6/18/23

Warriors Don’t Cry: Connecting History, Literature, and Our Lives

Lesson by Linda Christensen
A unit designed to help students practice behaving as allies. Students read Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Senior High, then create and act out scenes from their own experiences where people act as allies, victims, perpetrators, and witnesses.

Josh Davidson 6/18/23 Josh Davidson 6/18/23

Voting Rights Act: Beyond the Headlines

Reading by Emilye Crosby and Judy Richardson
Key points missing from most textbooks about the Voting Rights Act. Many textbooks approach the history of this important legislation through a top-down lens that gives most of the credit to President Lyndon Johnson, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but the VRA came into being through intensive organizing and activism spearheaded by the Black community.

Josh Davidson 6/18/23 Josh Davidson 6/18/23

Desegregation Court Cases Before and After Brown v. Board of Education

Reading from the Brown Foundation or Educational Equity, Excellence, and Research with additions from Teaching for Change
Selected school desegregation court cases before and after Brown v. Board of Education 1849-1969.

Allison Acosta 6/17/23 Allison Acosta 6/17/23

Children's March History Dilemma

Lesson by Chris Seeger
In this lesson, students consider whether they would join fellow Black students in protest in 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, even if they are guaranteed to be arrested?

Julia Salcedo 6/17/23 Julia Salcedo 6/17/23

Sisters in Arms

Reading by David Hill
Two teachers, Nadine and Patsy Cordova, came under fire for teaching truthfully in New Mexico about Mexican-American history.

Josh Davidson 6/16/23 Josh Davidson 6/16/23

Teaching Segregation and Inequality in Housing and Education

Reading by Emilye Crosby
In recent years, there has been an outpouring of wonderful work documenting the structural basis of housing and educational segregation and inequality. This list of materials supplements the resources provided as part of Emilye Crosby’s “A Documents-Based Lesson on the Voting Rights Act: A Case Study of SNCC’s Work in Lowndes County and the Emergence of Black Power.”

Allison Acosta 6/15/23 Allison Acosta 6/15/23

Bravery in Little Rock History Dilemma

Lesson by Chris Seeger
In this lesson, students consider what they would do if they were a white student at at an all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas when it is ordered to desegregate and you see a Black student being harassed.