Who Fought To End Slavery? Meet the Abolitionists What kind of Constitution would have resulted from founders who were representative of the entire country? That is the question addressed in this role play activity. Constitution endorsed slavery and favored the interests of the owning classes. This helps students understand the origins of racism in the United States and who benefits. … with these Zinn Education Project lessonsĪ lesson on the countless colonial laws enacted to create division and inequality based on race. In most cases, we’d recommend doing these lessons before having students listen or read the chapter, since many of our activities leave the “what really happened” unanswered until the end. Toward that effort, we have suggested lessons that complement key chapters and moments in Reynolds’ and Kendi’s Stamped. We hope educators supplement these texts with an equally rich people’s history of racism and antiracism. Du Bois, and Angela Davis - offer examples that we’re happy students will encounter in the project of antiracist education. These individuals - Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, William Lloyd Garrison, W. This YA book is based on Kendi’s 2016 Stamped from the Beginning.īoth books center the lives of key individuals to help readers sort out both the origins of racist ideas and to differentiate between segregationist, assimilationist, and antiracist positions.

We are thrilled that teachers across the country are meeting, collaborating, and building curriculum based on Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X.

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