Origin of Racist Ideas
These two authors wrote Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, which adapts Stamped from the Beginning for young readers.
Who are Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi?
Phillis Wheatley was enslaved in this Massachusetts city, where the Wheatley family taught her to read and write.
What is Boston?
William Lloyd Garrison published this abolitionist newspaper in Boston.
What is the Liberator?
Jefferson wrote "all men are created equal" while doing this to hundreds of people.
What is enslaving them?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This New Jersey governor signed the information literacy law in January 2023.
Who is Governor Murphy?
This group "likes" Black people only when they act like them.
What are assimilationists?
Colonists wouldn't publish Wheatley's work, so her book came out in this city in 1773.
What is London?
This strategy urged Black people to adopt "respectable" White behavior to prove stereotypes wrong.
What is uplift suasion? What is media suasion?
This Constitutional Convention deal counted enslaved people as 3/5 of a person.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Four Black girls were killed in a 1963 church bombing in this Alabama city.
What is Birmingham, Alabama?
The law says students must learn to assess information from news media and from social media platforms like this one.
What is TikTok? What is Instagram? What is Facebook?
In 1415, this Portuguese writer defended African slavery and is called the "world's first racist."
Who is Gomes Eanes de Zurara?
Mrs. Wheatley freed Phillis in this year.
What is 1774?
David Walker sewed copies of this 1829 pamphlet into sailors' clothing to spread it through the South.
What is the Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World?
This 1791 revolution terrified American slaveholders because enslaved people successfully fought for freedom.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Stokely Carmichael popularized this two-wo.rd phrase in a 1966 Mississippi speech.
What is "Black Power"?
Students will learn to tell apart these three things.
What are facts, points of view, and opinions?
This theory claimed Africans were cursed by God because of a Bible story about Noah's son Ham.
What is the Curse Theory?
This Puritan minister argued Christianity could "save" enslaved people but never challenged slavery itself.
Who is Cotton Mather?
In 1845, this formerly enslaved writer published a firsthand account of slavery's violence and denied education.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This name was given to the 1919 wave of racial violence that hit at least 26 U.S. cities.
What is the Red Summer?
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded this Oakland group, known for free breakfast programs and protecting people from police brutality.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This group first asked for information literacy to be added to learning standards, back in 2016.
What is the New Jersey Association of School Librarians?
In 1688, Mennonites in this Pennsylvania town wrote the first antiracist petition.
What is Germantown?
This Puritan minister argued Christianity could "save" enslaved people but never challenged slavery itself.
Who are the Egyptians?
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel about an enslaved man named Tom became the biggest book of its time.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Alain Locke's "The New Negro" helped launch this 1920s celebration of Black art, writing, and music in New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act gave the same sentence for 5 grams of crack and this amount of powder cocaine.
What is 500 grams?
The law responds to this "era" in which people accept arguments based on emotions rather than facts.
What is the post-truth era?