Overview of Lesson:
The students will reflect on what they have been taught about the history of Black-Asian solidarity in the US. Students will examine photographs, quotations, and testimonies of Black and Asian Americans who sought to engage in solidarity toward racial justice for Asian and Black Americans respectively. Students will examine resources from 1965 through the present.
Author: Jondou Chase Chen, PhD, Teaching Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Library of Congress Resources:
https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/of-the-people/represent/junior-fellows/documents/CCDI-Guide-Olivia-Hewang.pdf, https://www.loc.gov/item/2005676931/
Instructions for Task:
The attached slides have questions that introduce students to the topic, ask for prior knowledge, support students with engaging primary sources, and then ask students to consider what the implications of this learned knowledge might be, especially if this knowledge was not previously known or taught.
