Monday - watched "Girl Rising"
Tuesday - Took Map Quiz over Western Africa, Continued Presentations - Racism
Brown v. Board of Education - established segregation of public schools unconstitutional, origin of Civil Rights movement
Civil Rights act - introduced by Lyman Trumbull - president Jackson vetoed.
Civil Rights Act - 1964 - no discrimination based on color, national origin, sex, race, and religion. - proposed by JFK, passed by LBJ.
Civil Rights Act of 1965 - Forbids discrimination inn voting, South used poll taxes and literacy test to prohibit them from voting.
Civil Rights Act of 1968 - protects the buyer/renter from discrimination regarding sale, rental, and financing of houses.
Classroom - Homeschooling - teaching through the "White Man's" point of view. Teachers stereotyping black students.
Wednesday - No School
Thursday - Watched Girl Rising
Friday - Started Central Africa Map -
James Comey - Director of FBI was fired.
Continued Presentations - Racism
More punishment people of color - 3x more suspension/expulsion
5% white - suspension - 16% black
Statistics in entertainment.
10.8% of speaking characters were black, 4.2% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3.6% mixed races
top 100 movies of 2012 - 24% of character are black, 76% are white
93% Oscars go to white
Workplace - Harassment has doubled seance 1970s 6,977 cases in 2007
Home Depot paid 125,000 dollars
Wages - 15 dollars for black - 21 dollars white
more blacks/Hispanics feel like they are treated unfairly at the workplace.
Reasons for Racism
Racist option in family, loop of stereotypes, put frustrations out on others, "They take our jobs and handouts from government",
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