Grand Prairie Group 4 - What We Did & Didn't Learn in K12 & Why That Matters by Laura Zahn https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb en-us 2023-05-18 21:48:57 UTC 2023-11-20 22:21:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Our African brothers and sisters were enslaved for 246 years. 12 American presidents owned human beings, 8 while in office. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773754 2023-05-18 21:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773754 110K-120K American citizens were incarcerated during WWII as part of the internment of Japanese Americans. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773755 2023-05-18 21:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773755 Enslavement in the US is legal under the 13th Amendment for individuals convicted of crimes; African Americans are incarcerated at 5x the rate of white Americans. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773756 2023-05-18 21:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773756 Enslaved African Americans were promised and then denied 40 acres upon emancipation; the 2015 value was $6.4 trillion. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773758 2023-05-18 21:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773758 The 1862 Homestead Act allowed squatters to settle and claim vacant land in the West - much of it was already owned by Mexicans. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773759 2023-05-18 21:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773759 Undocumented workers paid $13 billion to Social Security in 2010, but received only $1 billion in benefits. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773760 2023-05-18 21:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773760 Redlining, discriminatory lending practices, and segregated schools denied the GI benefits to the majority of the 1 million Black Americans who earned the benefits lzahn4 https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773761 2023-05-18 21:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773761 Virginia enacted a law in 1662 declaring a child's enslavement or freedom was determined by the status of the child's mother. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773762 2023-05-18 21:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773762 Undocumented immigrants pay $11.7 billion in state and local taxes alone, including $7 billion in sales and excise taxes, $3.6 billion in property taxes, and $1.1 billion in income taxes. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773763 2023-05-18 21:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773763 Native people were not granted American citizenship until June 2, 1924. Until 1957, some states still banned Native people from voting. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773764 2023-05-18 21:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773764 90% of the Native population died from factors related to colonization. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773765 2023-05-18 21:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773765 Mexico abolished slavery in 1829, a third of a century before the United States fought the Civil War and the US Congress passed the 13th Amendment. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773766 2023-05-18 21:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773766 The Black Panthers ran free breakfast programs, TB clinics, and education programs in their communities. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773767 2023-05-18 21:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/genteach/66qql7p0q7j7lunb/wish/2596773767