Social Justice at L.C. Anderson High School
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Activity:
Pick out one of the following organizations and answer the following:
1) What is the purpose of this organization?
2) What social issue are they concerned with?
3) What are some examples of activism that this group does?
4) What sort of opportunities do they have for community involvement/ volunteering?
ATX EJ:
http://www.atxej.org
http://www.atxej.org/website-builder-products
Food related volunteer opportunities at Sustainable Food Center:
http://sustainablefoodcenter.org/get-involved/volunteer
Volunteer opps on Saturdays with Urban Roots (youth development and agriculture)
http://urbanrootsatx.org/
Black Lives Matter Austin
https://www.facebook.com/BlackLivesMatterAustin/
PODER
http://www.poder-texas.org/index.html
Undoing Racism
http://www.undoingracismaustin.org/racism-in-austin/
Third Coast Activist Resource Center:
http://www.thirdcoastactivist.org/
Undoing Racism : https://actionnetwork.org/events/a-community-dialogue-on-whiteness-and-racism-2
Pick out one of the following organizations and answer the following:
1) What is the purpose of this organization?
2) What social issue are they concerned with?
3) What are some examples of activism that this group does?
4) What sort of opportunities do they have for community involvement/ volunteering?
ATX EJ:
http://www.atxej.org
http://www.atxej.org/website-builder-products
Food related volunteer opportunities at Sustainable Food Center:
http://sustainablefoodcenter.org/get-involved/volunteer
Volunteer opps on Saturdays with Urban Roots (youth development and agriculture)
http://urbanrootsatx.org/
Black Lives Matter Austin
https://www.facebook.com/BlackLivesMatterAustin/
PODER
http://www.poder-texas.org/index.html
Undoing Racism
http://www.undoingracismaustin.org/racism-in-austin/
Third Coast Activist Resource Center:
http://www.thirdcoastactivist.org/
Undoing Racism : https://actionnetwork.org/events/a-community-dialogue-on-whiteness-and-racism-2
Questions to answer in your journals:
1. What did the 1928 Koch & Fowler plan outline?
2. What do you notice about the 1935 map? (use the slider, read the key) What is a HOLC designated area?
3. Explain how redlining has excluded certain populations from accumulating wealth.
1. What did the 1928 Koch & Fowler plan outline?
2. What do you notice about the 1935 map? (use the slider, read the key) What is a HOLC designated area?
3. Explain how redlining has excluded certain populations from accumulating wealth.
Questions to answer in your journals (after reading ENTIRE article):
4. Who is Charles Akins? What is his relationship to Anderson HS?
5. What is the story with the original Anderson?
6. What does Mr. Akins recall about growing up in East Austin? What restrictions existed for him in the rest of Austin?
4. Who is Charles Akins? What is his relationship to Anderson HS?
5. What is the story with the original Anderson?
6. What does Mr. Akins recall about growing up in East Austin? What restrictions existed for him in the rest of Austin?
Reading List
blackgirlsmatter_report.pdf | |
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arizona_gets_schooled.pdf | |
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tenthingsyoushouldknowaboutselma.pdf | |
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jim_crow_introduction.pdf | |
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jim_crow_ch_2_the_lockdown.pdf | |
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