PVD Group 3 - What We Did & Didn't Learn in K12 & Why That Matters by Laura Zahn https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl en-us 2024-06-12 17:00:52 UTC 2024-06-12 17:00:53 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/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059001 2024-06-12 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059001 110K-120K American citizens were incarcerated during WWII as part of the internment of Japanese Americans. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059002 2024-06-12 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059002 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/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059004 2024-06-12 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059004 Enslaved African Americans were promised and then denied 40 acres upon emancipation; the 2015 value was $6.4 trillion. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059005 2024-06-12 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059005 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/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059007 2024-06-12 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059007 Undocumented workers paid $13 billion to Social Security in 2010, but received only $1 billion in benefits. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059008 2024-06-12 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059008 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/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059010 2024-06-12 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059010 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/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059011 2024-06-12 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059011 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/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059013 2024-06-12 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059013 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/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059014 2024-06-12 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059014 90% of the Native population died from factors related to colonization. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059017 2024-06-12 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059017 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/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059018 2024-06-12 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059018 The Black Panthers ran free breakfast programs, TB clinics, and education programs in their communities. lzahn4 https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059020 2024-06-12 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lzahn4/h4ror43hyhg14cbl/wish/3026059020