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Lesson Plan :

Lesson Plan Asian American Fights Against School Segregation

  • Grade Level 9th-12th Grade
  • Date Published Oct 2023
  • Time Period Late 1800s - Early 1900s
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Introduction

Despite being hardly known, Asian Americans were not strangers to the history of school (de)segregation. Although the practice was uneven and sporadic, and although it nowhere approached the near-universal
extent and persistence of the segregated schooling imposed on African American students, Asian American children and families fought hard against racial discrimination in schooling. This lesson provides background information of three pre-Brown court cases of Asian American struggles against school segregation and provides an inquiry lesson on this largely forgotten history.

Essential Questions

  • In what ways does the political system in the United States address or not address the needs of the diverse people of the nation?

  • What were the experiences of immigrants and their children in America? How were those experiences affected by the context in which they lived?

  • How have individuals and groups fought to expand the protection

  • of civil rights in the United States?

  • How did Asian Americans challenge separate and unequal education in the late 1800s and early 1900s?