Discrimination in 20th Century

Lesson Overview

: Explain the practice of discrimination and the passage of discriminatory laws in the United States and their impact on the rights of African Americans, including the Jim Crow laws and the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson.

Duration

Multiple days

Lesson Type

Traditional Lesson

Essential Question

1. What is discrimination and who worked to fight against discrimination?
2. Was discrimination legal? What laws impacted its legality?

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Social Studies

Literature:
White Water by Michael Bandy

The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson

The School Is Not White! by Doreen Rappaport;

New Shoes by Susan Lynn Meyer

Newsela.com articles:
Primary Source: Plessy v. Ferguson
Jim Crow and the Great Migration

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Standards

5-1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of Reconstruction and its impact on the United States.
- Reconstruction was a period of great hope, incredible change, and efforts at rebuilding. To understand Reconstruction and race relations in the United States, the student will utilize the knowledge and skills set forth in the following indicators:
  - 5-1.2 Explain the effects of Reconstruction, including new rights under the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments; the actions of the Freedmen’s Bureau; and the move from a plantation system to sharecropping.

Lesson Created By: LaurenBenton, Jarvais Jackson, CEEAAS teacher

Lesson Partners: Center for the Education & Equity of African American Students (CEEAAS)