Equity Reading and Persuasive Letter Writing Unit
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July, Frederick Douglass
My Dungeon Shook from The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
Redlining Louisville: The History of Race, Class, and Real Estate, GUI Map Project
The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates
My Dungeon Shook from The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
Redlining Louisville: The History of Race, Class, and Real Estate, GUI Map Project
The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates
“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.” ― Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
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“Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.” ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
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Click Book Cover for a PDF of the Text
“The Home Owner's Loan Corporation (HOLC) was created in 1933 to aid the housing market during the Great Depression. The HOLC created residential securities maps, better known as "redlining maps," to guide investment in US cities. These maps assigned grades 'A' through 'D' to neighborhoods to indicate their desirability for investment. Black, immigrant, and low-income neighborhoods were often given grades of 'C' or 'D,' eliminating their access to mortgage insurance or credit for decades. Although the HOLC was discontinued in 1951, the impact of disinvestment resulting from redlining is still evident in most US cities today. ”
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"Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole." - Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations
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Click Image To Go To Feature Article in The Atlantic
The Overarching Thematic Focus for This Unit
The scars of injustice and the path to equity.
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