Living the Legacy - Keyword: Education
Unit 3, Lesson 3
Assess Jewish attitudes towards Affirmative Action as an example of how individuals and communities try to manage competing priorities.
Unit 3, Lesson 2
Analyze how underlying rifts in the relationship between African Americans and Jews brought these groups into more overt conflict in the late 1960s, with a focus on the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school crisis and a poetry slam activity.
Unit 2, Lesson 2
Investigate the dynamics of segregation in northern schools through a New York City court case ruled on by Judge and Jewish activist Justine Wise Polier.
Unit 1, Lesson 1
Explore the concept of “Bread and Roses” and ideas about work and dignity, with specific cases on education and culture, hats and clothing, poetry and song, as well as traditional Jewish texts about labor.