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Learning for Justice: The Color of Law
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Learning for Justice: The Color of Law

Collector: Ann V.
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Three powerful, pertinent, and thought-provoking lessons make up the “The Color of Law: The Role of Government in Shaping Racial Inequity” unit. High schoolers examine primary sources, watch videos, and read testimonies that document how government practices and policies created and supported segregation, economic discrimination, and inequality. Scholars also consider how these policies impact people today.

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Concepts

applying for jobs, black history month, civil rights, discrimination, housing, injustice, justice, labor unions, map skills, primary sources, racism, segregation, slavery, social activism, social injustice, social justice, the civil rights movement, the great depression, the new deal, economic policies, labor laws, primary source analysis, primary source images, sharecropping, the free market, the labor force

Resource Details

Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Common Core

RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.4 RH.9-10.7 RH.9-10.9 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.4 RH.11-12.7 RH.11-12.9 RH.11-12.10

Collection Items

    The Color of Law: Creating Racially Segregated Communities

    The Color of Law: Creating Racially Segregated Communities

    Lesson Plan
    Street Map of Greater Miami

    Street Map of Greater Miami

    Primary Source
    City of Richmond, Virginia and Environs

    City of Richmond, Virginia and Environs

    Primary Source
    1941 photograph of children in Detroit, Michigan

    1941 photograph of children in Detroit, Michigan

    Primary Source
    1915 leaflet promoting segregation from St. Louis, Missouri

    1915 leaflet promoting segregation from St. Louis, Missouri

    Primary Source
    1936 FHA Underwriting Manual: Focus on Sections 229, 233 and 284

    1936 FHA Underwriting Manual: Focus on Sections 229, 233 and 284

    Primary Source
    Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America

    Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America

    Map
    Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short History | Code Switch | NPR

    Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short History | Code Switch | NPR

    Video
    The Color of Law Lesson 1 Book Excerpts 1.1‒1.4 (.pdf)

    The Color of Law Lesson 1 Book Excerpts 1.1‒1.4 (.pdf)

    Worksheet
    The Color of Law: Winners and Losers in the Job Market

    The Color of Law: Winners and Losers in the Job Market

    Lesson Plan
    Prior Knowledge and Personal Association Survey (.pdf)

    Prior Knowledge and Personal Association Survey (.pdf)

    Graphic Organizer
    The Color of Law Lesson 2 Book Excerpts 2.1‒2.6 (.pdf)

    The Color of Law Lesson 2 Book Excerpts 2.1‒2.6 (.pdf)

    Worksheet
    Pullman Porters Grievances

    Pullman Porters Grievances

    Primary Source
    Dan Parks, Grandson of CCC Worker

    Dan Parks, Grandson of CCC Worker

    Reading Passage
    Proclamation of the Striking Textile Workers of Lawrence

    Proclamation of the Striking Textile Workers of Lawrence

    Primary Source
    NPR: Community in Action

    NPR: Community in Action

    Reading Passage
    The Color of Law: Developing the White Middle Class

    The Color of Law: Developing the White Middle Class

    Lesson Plan
    MLK Talks 'New Phase' Of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months Before His Assassination | NBC News

    MLK Talks 'New Phase' Of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months Before His Assassination | NBC News

    Video
    Martin Luther King Explains 'Reparations'

    Martin Luther King Explains 'Reparations'

    Video
    Sample Critical Listening Guide (.pdf)

    Sample Critical Listening Guide (.pdf)

    Student Reference
    The Color of Law Lesson 3 Book Excerpts 3.1‒3.5 (.pdf)

    The Color of Law Lesson 3 Book Excerpts 3.1‒3.5 (.pdf)

    Worksheet
    Neighborhood Poverty and Household Financial Security

    Neighborhood Poverty and Household Financial Security

    Informational Text
    Demonstrators at a St. Louis Small Arms Ammunition Plant, 1942

    Demonstrators at a St. Louis Small Arms Ammunition Plant, 1942

    Primary Source
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