Curated OER
History Matters: "Says Lax Condidtions Caused Race Riots"
Read several articles from the Chicago Daily News on July 28, 1919, reporting on the various aspects of the Chicago race riots. One article, by Carl Sandburg, used sources from the black community.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Eslarp: Race Riot at East St. Louis, 1917
This chapter from a book about East St. Louis relates the horror of the East St. Louis Massacre where maurading whites fired on African Americans and torched their homes. Read about the aftermath of the massacre and what happened to...
Other
Socialist Worker: Causes of the 1919 Race Riots
Read about the racism in unions throughout the United States after World War I, culminating in race riots in 1919, especially in Chicago.
Stanford University
Gendered Innovations: Race & Ethnicity
Explains the definitions of race and ethnicity, and how the terms have been used. Also lists several problems with labeling people or groups as a particular race or ethnicity.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Race and Politics
In this Wide Angle video, one of Brazil's few black senators discusses racial discrimination in Brazilian governmental, political and economic life.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Race and Ethnicity: Prejudice and Racism
This lesson looks at the functions of race and ethnicity in society.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots
A lesson unit with good background information for students. Details the history of lynching and race riots in America and the treatment of African-Americans from 1880 to 1950.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Baseball, Race, and Ethnicity: Rounding the Bases
Using primary documents as resources, students examine the connection between America's favorite pastime, baseball, and race.
University of Richmond
Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet: 1894 1909
This curation, transcription, and interpretation of the Richmond Planet opens a window into fundamental issues of race, equity, justice, violence, and power that still stir the nation today. Thirteen formerly enslaved men formed the...
Library of Congress
Loc: Baseball, Race Relations and Jackie Robinson
In this lesson, students draw on their previous studies of American history and culture as they analyze primary sources from Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s in American Memory. A close reading of two documents...
Curated OER
History Matters: The Eruption of Tulsa
This article in the June 29, 1921, issue of Nation magazine by Walter White, an NAACP official, reports on the massive damage to black-owned homes and businesses as a result of the Tulsa race riot on May 31, 1921.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Affirmative Action and the Usa
In this video from Wide Angle, two American NAACP lawyers arrive to advise Brazilian civil rights organizations, leading to a discussion of differences between race relations in the U.S. and Brazil.
Thomson Reuters
Find Law: u.s. Supreme Court: Plessy vs. Ferguson
Transcript of the infamous Supreme Court decision that established the constitutionality of the principle of "Separate but equal," public facilities for members of different races. This was eventually overturned by the 1954 and 1955...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Complications of Identity
Wide Angle video tells the story of two identical twins, one of whom was classified as white and the other as black, highlighting the difficulty in defining race in Brazilian society. [2:53]
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Two Towns of Jasper (Classroom Resources on Racism)
Classroom resources that examine the history and intent of hate groups in the United States and the notorious race-motivated murder committed in Jasper, Texas, by three white supremacists. Resources take students through a number of...
Other
The Human Right to Freedom From Discrimination
This site discusses the "human right to freedom from any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on gender, race, color, national or ethnic origin, language, religion, political or other opinion, age, or any other status,...
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Othello
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources focuses on Othello, Shakespeare's classic story of jealousy, love, and betrayal. It shows how race is represented in Shakespeare and in performance throughout history.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Ato Zteacherstuff: We're All the Same on the Inside
Site from AtoZteacherstuff utilizes hands-on activity in order to illustrate how people may look different because of race or ethnicity.
TES Global
Tes: Two Kinda Truth' by Farukh Dhondy
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides comprehension and theme-related activities to accompany Farukh Dhondy's short piece "Two Kinda Truth." False stereotypes and evidence of racism will be discussed in the lesson.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Anti Immigrant Sentiment
Botswanans express some of their attitudes toward the influx of Zimbabwean migrants in this Wide Angle video segment.
Other
Sweatt v. Painter Archive
This site has just about everything one might want to know in an investigation of the important Supreme Court decision in Sweatt vs. Painter.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Virtual Professional Learning Series
Our Virtual Professional Learning Series is created for teachers-by teachers-to bring together content experts and educators from all backgrounds. With an emphasis on fun, engaging, accessible, and free tools for classrooms, these...
Curated OER
History Matters: "A Crowd of Howling Negroes"
Read the reporting from the Chicago Daily Tribune on the Chicago race riot in the summer of 1919. Find an accounting of the many incidents and a partial list of those injured.
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Eladio Bobadilla, "It's Giving Back to the Community"
This article focuses on race issues and sports players. It discusses the when then San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem in to protest police brutality, racism, and "a country that...