Tulsa Race Massacre Poster 

5-Hour Lesson Segment
U.S. History and Geography (11th Grade)
Constructed by Ryan Trammell

Community, Segregation, Racism, Discrimination, Oppression (4 Is)

Note: Please read through the “curriculum-thinking/rationales” behind this lesson before reading the hour-by-hour explanations.

About the Lesson & Learning Objectives

With this activity, I am hoping to convey to my students the dire consequences of racism, discrimination, and Jim Crow. I want them to see that concepts are not just metaphysical things that we learn about, but that they can have grave consequences.  

The majority of my students are BIPOC, and are barely learning these concepts. They have experienced these concepts throughout their lives, but they are now putting a name to their experiences. I have a lot of refugee students who left countries in which they were targeted for religious, ethnic/national, political reasons. The hope is that they will be able to relate to some aspects, or maybe even sympathize/empathize with the residents of Greenwood.

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