Students compare and contrast the rise of union membership in the 1930s with the union movement of the early 2020s
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
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Lesson Plan: Student Activism and the Chicano Rights Movement
Students will learn about and analyze the events surrounding the 1968 East Los Angeles student walkouts.
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Lesson Plan: Free Speech and Censorship in Popular Culture
Students will analyze free speech and how it applies to popular culture.
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Lesson Plan: Using Persuasive Writing to Build Understanding
Students will identify key concepts and definitions related to hate crimes.
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Lesson Plan: Vincent Chin and Asian American Civil Rights
Students will learn about the case that set the precedent for racially motivated attacks against Asian Americans being prosecuted as hate crimes.
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Lesson Plan: The Legacy of Government-Run Boarding Schools
Students will use primary sources, including interviews, images, newspaper articles and speeches, to evaluate the short term and long term effects of government-run boarding schools.
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Lesson Plan: Understanding Boarding Schools for Native Americans
Students will learn about federally run boarding schools created to force the assimilation of Native American children into white society.
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Lesson Plan: Transgender Activism and Debates Over Anti-LGBTQ Laws
Students will learn about historical and contemporary demands for equality by transgender people.
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Lesson Plan: The 1968 School Walkouts and Civil Disobedience
Thousands of high school students walked out of classes in East Los Angeles in 1968 to protest inequality for Mexican Americans in the public education system. Among the students’ concerns were classes that omitted Hispanic history, a lack of bilingual teachers and a system that steered Chicano students to vocational training rather than college-prep classes.
Posted inU.S. History
Lesson Plan: School Integration: Political Cartoon Analysis
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court Case that declared that school segregation was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court announced its unanimous decision on May 17, 1954. It held that school segregation violated the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The following year the Court ordered desegregation “with all deliberate speed.” This lesson, or set of two possible lessons, uses the Library of Congress protocol for analyzing political cartoons as a means for examining integration efforts after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Case. The activities are designed for students to complete on their own or in small groups.
