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"Shall We Call Home Our Troops?" (1875)

Wood engraving by Thomas Nast from Harper's Weekly depicting the reaction of the radical South toward African Americans after the North does not follow up their promises.

Last Updated: July 20, 2022

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Wood engraving by Thomas Nast from Harper's Weekly (1864), Library of Congress

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Students learn about education, identity, and activism through an exploration of the East Los Angeles school walkouts, when thousands of students protested unequal educational opportunities for Mexican American students.

John Ortiz, Mexican-American student leader at James A. Garfield High School, addressing assembled students during a walkout.

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Students explore the first year of the Delano grape strike, when grape workers in California's San Joaquin Valley went on strike to demand higher wages and better work conditions.

Dolores Huerta and others hold up "Huelga" signs as part of the grape strike.

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Students explore the strategies, risks, and historical significance of the 1963 Chicago school boycott, while also considering bigger-picture questions about social progress.

Crowd fills LaSalle Street between City Hall and building housing Board of Education as hundreds of demonstrators marched in Chicago on Oct. 22, 1963 following a one-day boycott of public schools.

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Students experience the challenges to reporting objectively by writing a news piece and watching a video about how journalists counteract bias in the newsroom.

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Students explore the potential negative impact of images through the social media protest #IfTheyGunnedMeDown and develop a decision-making process for choosing imagery to represent controversial events.

National President of Black Lawyers for Justice, carries a picture of Michael Brown as he leads demonstrators on a march.

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Students explore how identity impacts our responses to other people and events by examining a cartoon and analyzing an opinion poll from a week after Ferguson.

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Students examine how identity and biases can impact how individuals interpret images and experience the challenge of selecting images to represent news events, particularly connected to sensitive issues.

People hold hands in prayer in the parking lot of convenience store that was looted and burned after Michael Brown was shot by police in Ferguson, Mo.

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Students consider how US history books, films, and other works of popular culture have misrepresented the history of the Reconstruction era.

A portrait of W.E.B. Du Bois, head-and-shoulders, facing slightly right.

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Students examine how freed people in the United States sought to define freedom after Emancipation.

A black and white image of African American schoolchildren in Liberty County, circa 1890.

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Students learn about President Andrew Johnson and the Congressional Republican's conflicting visions of how to rebuild the nation after the Civil War.

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Through a video-based activity, students explore how Radical Reconstruction changed the nature of voting rights and democracy in the South.

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By examining periods of violence during the Reconstruction era, students learn about the potential backlash to political and social change.

Portraits superimposed on an image of the American flag

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At a Glance

Language

Subject

You might also be interested in…

The 1968 East LA School Walkouts

California Grape Workers’ Strike: 1965–66

10 Questions for the Past: The 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott

How Journalists Minimize Bias

#IfTheyGunnedMeDown

The Impact of Identity

The Power of Images

A Contested History

Defining Freedom

The Political Struggle, 1865–1866

Interracial Democracy

Violence and Backlash

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