Teaching Activity. By Linda Christensen. Rethinking Schools. 20 pages.
Teaching about racist patterns of murder, theft, displacement, and wealth inequality through the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
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Teaching Activity. By Linda Christensen. Rethinking Schools. 9 pages.
Teaching about patterns of displacement and wealth inequality through the history of Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop communities and the building of Dodger Stadium.
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Teaching Activity. By Alma Anderson McDonald.
A teacher looks back on her childhood to discover the meaning of environmental racism. Linda Christensen offers ways to teach about this story with students.
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Teaching Activity. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca.
In this activity, students take on the role of activist-experts to improve upon a Congressional bill for reparations for Black people. They talk back to Congress’ flimsy legislation and design a more robust alternative.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Heather McGhee. 2023. 240 pages.
This young readers’ edition analyzes racism in U.S. politics and policymaking, and provides a potential path forward through solidarity.
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The Supreme Court determined that the government could not infringe upon the First Amendment rights of corporations to spend unlimited funds on electoral campaigns.
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Teaching activity. By Freda Anderson. 2023. Rethinking Schools.
A high school teacher has students problematize the conditions of their school to learn about funding disparities and the disastrous effects of district debt.
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A group of Philadelphians posted a broadside across the city calling for for independence from the British Crown, urging the colony’s militia to instead select delegates of “honesty, common sense, and a plain understanding, when unbiased by sinister motives.”
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Following British occupation of the city, Revolutionary militia members in Philadelphia denounced and attacked wealthy merchants who benefited from wartime shortages.
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Faced with heavy taxes and threats of land seizure by the government, farmers and working class people of western Massachusetts organized resistance to such policies, leading to “Shays’ Rebellion.”
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Delaware teacher and librarian Robert Coram authored a pamphlet that advocated for a well-funded public education system to help close the wealth gap in the United States.
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