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Special Focus: 1943 Race Riot · Before the Unrest: 1940 - 1967 · 12th Street Detroit
Special Focus: 1943 Race Riot · Before the Unrest: 1940 - 1967 · 12th Street Detroit
The race riots in Detroit concerning civilian employment of black workers and the housing of their families directly contradicts the myth canon of a unified nation "coming together" to fight world war II. Move through the other sections of this site to get pictures and other primary documents to show to students. One approach is to show them without dates and ask the students to identify them
Special Focus: 1943 Race Riot · Before the Unrest: 1940 - 1967 · 12th Street Detroit
Featured Source Performance Assessment: Civil Rights During WWII - Emerging America
Featured Source Performance Assessment: Civil Rights During WWII - Emerging America
This performance task requires students to compare text, sound files, and images to deepen their understanding of the efforts by African Americans to advance the Double V Campaign (victory over racism at war and at home) during WWII. A timeline helps students sequence and visualize the relative length of time between events.
Featured Source Performance Assessment: Civil Rights During WWII - Emerging America
"Negro-Japanese Fifth Column Possible" 1942
"Negro-Japanese Fifth Column Possible" 1942
Newspaper article warning San Francisco of attempts by Japanese to recruit African-Americans in their war effort against the United States
"Negro-Japanese Fifth Column Possible" 1942