Lesson Plan, Activity, Video Building Community Consciousness and Coalitions

This lesson plan helps students understand the context of the 1992 L.A. civil unrest (L.A. riots). Korean Americans in solidarity with Black Americans and others, formed coalitions to call for racial justice, community healing and rebuilding. Various police reforms, community programs and rebuilding efforts came about after. The lesson covers the importance of building community consciousness and coalitions to fight systemic racism. By using the transcripts from the segment this lesson plan will ask the students to analyze the movement by using guiding questions to identify the issue, research the problem, respond to the problem and reflect on why learning about this topic is important to their lives and current social movements.
Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to:

• Understand the context of the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest (L.A. Riots) and importance of building community consciousness and coalitions to fight systemic racism.
• Learn how the communities, government and businesses came together to address the civil unrest.
• Identify issues, research, respond and reflect on these problems to learn about how social movements affect them and their communities.