TUESDAY--MARCH 1

US History
EQ:
What were the competing visions for racial equality offered by Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?

CW:
Social Darwinism discussion (brief)
wealth inequality in America today
labor union simulation
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educational gains for African Americans: (primary source docs)
Booker T. Washington's vision for African Americans--Atlanta Compromise address--1895
W.E.B. DuBois' vision for AAs: talented tenth; liberal arts education
video clip: Du Bois (from Many Rivers)
The Souls of Black Folk--"double consciousness"
Trayvon Martin case--2012
President Obama speaks out on Trayvon Martin--July 2013
video clip--President Obama speaks out on the Trayvon Martin case
racial stereotyping
code switch
Key and Peele clip
K/P: phone call
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HW:
LYNCHING READING
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IB HOTA
EQ:
What were the political, social, and economic impacts of American slavery?


CW:
finish 12 Years a Slave


HW:
Read pp. 375--379
382-85 (read the section entitled 1850:Crisis and Compromise)