Lesson Plan: Housing Segregation and Racial Discrimination in the 1930s
Grades 8-12
Prior to this lesson, students would have already covered the causes of the Civil War rooted in the South’s dependence on slavery, the failure of the U.S. government to fully support the integration of newly freed Black people as citizens and the establishment of racial segregation laws at state levels after the Plessy v. Ferguson U.S. Supreme Court decision supported the legal doctrine of “separate but equal.” Additionally, the teacher might have already covered the topics of the early 1900s, including America’s entry into World War II and the impact of the Great Depression on all of American society.
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