• Students will understand the relatively recent rise of the use of racial categories. • Students will deconstruct the “common sense” of these categories. • Students will become familiar with the Harlan dissent and consider how Jim Crow segregation laws were enforced. • Students will examine the lived experiences of multiple people during an era of inequality as a precursor to Civil Rights organizing.
Recommended level: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
1. The Social Construction of Race
2. Jim Crow Law and the Harlan Dissent
3. Lived Experiences and the Road to Civil Rights