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 * Race and Social Justice in U.S. History Handout Downloads **

**__Journal Entries__**
1. List of RSJ Journal Entries

**__RSJ Reader__**
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__** RSJ Textbook **__ 1. __The American Vision__ __online version__

__RSJ Reader__
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**__Opening of the Year Reading__**

 * 1) __2015__:
 * 2) [[file:mrwilliamshistorypublic/rsj_jabbar2015.pdf|Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on "Black Lives Matter"]] (2015)
 * 3) __2016__
 * 4) [[file:mrwilliamshistorypublic/rsj_whitetrash_2016.pdf|Nancy Isenberg on "White Trash and Class"]] (2016)
 * 5) Maya Angelou "The Human Family" (Reading by Maya Angelou on Scientific American, May 28, 2014) and written poem(All Poetry)
 * 6) __2017__
 * 7) [[file:gladwell_johnson.wav|Malcolm Gladwell - State v. Johnson]] and [[file:gladwell_johnson2.wav|2nd Clip]]: you can listen to the entire podcast here. 2 points of extra credit are available.

**__General Handouts__**
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__**Unit One – From Colonies to Constitution**__
1. 2. The Presence of the Past - in RSJ Reader 3. 4. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin on Race and Diversity - in RSJ Reader 5. Freedom of Religion - You Be The Judge - in RSJ Reader 6.

__**Unit Two – Expansion and Road to the Civil War**__
1. - 2. Anti Mexican American War Sentiment - (in RSJ Reader) 3. Denmark Vessey and Nat Turner slave revolts - Ben and Tom's Journal Entry (in RSJ Reader) 4. -  5. Twelve Years A Slave (in RSJ Reader) 6. The Fight For Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War (in RSJ Reader)

1. 2. Letter To My Old Master / Edwin McCaleb Letter (in RSJ Reader) 3. Booker T. Washington / W.E.B DuBois Reading (in RSJ Reader) 4 (use to answer question three, Part IV of your Reconstruction Packet)
 * __Unit Three – Reconstruction, The West and Industrialism__**

__B. The West__ 1. 2. Circle the Wagons Boys – It’s Tourist Season: Almo, Idaho (in RSJ Reader) 3. - use to answer Part III in your "The West" packet\ 4. - . You may want to use the companion website for the video we watched in class The West: Geography of Hope.

__C. Industrialism Homework Packet__ 1. 2. Difficulties Facing Industrial Workers – In RSJ Reader 3. Child Labor Script/Journal – In RSJ Reader 4. (you need to choose one of these to base your journal entry on)

__**Unit Four – Immigration, Culture and Imperialism**__ 1. 2. The Devil’s Highway Excerpt (in RSJ Reader) 3. A Walk Through Ellis Island (in RSJ Reader) 4. 5. Angel Island vs. Ellis Island Questions (in RSJ Reader)

__B. American Culture at the Turn of the Century__ 1.  - Homework and In-Class Packet 2.

__C. American Imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th Century__ 1. - Homework Packet and In-Class Question 2. (RSJ Reader) - 3. Videos (for Part V - The Panama Canal): Part One "Building the Canal", Part Two,"Care of the Canal" 4. (Need to answer question 3-5 in Part V)

__**Unit Five – The Progressive Era – How Progressive Was It?**__ 1. 2. Defining Progressivism Summaries (in RSJ Reader) 3. The Bath Riots: Indignity Along the Mexican Border (in RSJ Reader) 4. Progressivism and Immigration – The Ozawa and Thind Cases (in RSJ Reader)

1. 2. Ross Gregory reading – American Intervention in WWI (in RSJ Reader) 3. (covered in class) 4. 4. (needed to answer the “Analyzing WWI Propaganda” questions) 5. - reading from //A Different Mirror// (needed to answer question 2 "African Americans in WWI") 6. Davis Enterprise WWI readings (in RSJ Reader) 7. Peace Goals of WWI (in RSJ Reader)
 * __Unit Six – World War I and its Effects__**

__**Unit Seven – The 1920s – Roaring or Warring?**__ 1. 2. Slang in the 1920s (RSJ Reader) 3. The Rise of the KKK in the 1920s (RSJ Reader) 4. (in class handout – will assist in answering questions from Part V) 5.  (needed to complete Part V) 5.

__**Unit Eight – The Great Depression and the New Deal**__ 1. 2.  - this reading can also be found in your RSJ Reader 3. – Brother Can You Spare A Dime, and Dust Bowl Blues (in RSJ Reader)

__**Unit Nine – World War II: The War and its Effects on the United States**__ 1. 2. The Four Freedoms (RSJ Reader) 3. Manzanar and Tule Lake – Japanese Internment (RSJ Reader) 4. Minorities in WWII - Special Forces (RSJ Reader) 5. Japanese Relocation - produced by the U.S. Government in 1943 (you need this to answer questions 1 and 2 in Part VII) 6. Hiram Bingham IV - The U.S. and the Holocaust (RSJ Reader) 7. The Air War and Its Effects - John Kenneth Galbraith (RSJ Reader) 8. Bombing Statistics In Japan (RSJ Reader) 9. Atomic Bomb Questionnaire (RSJ Reader) 10. The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb Documents (RSJ Reader) 11. Dr. Seuss Goes To War Cartoons (RSJ Reader)

__**Unit Ten – The Cold War in American History**__ 1. 2.  3. The CIA and the Cold War – readings from Overthrow

__**Unit Eleven – The Civil Rights Movements of the 20th Century**__ 1. 2. View From the Nation vs. View From the Trenches (RSJ Reader) 3.“Blindsided By History” – Johnny Coggins and Little Rock (RSJ Reader) 4. A Prom Divided (RSJ Reader) 5. White Allies in the Civil Rights Movements (RSJ Reader) 6. Cesar Chavez (RSJ Reader) 7. Women - Then and Now (from Time Magazine) (RSJ Reader) 8. New York State Regents Quiz - Home Economics (from //Newsweek//) (RSJ Reader) 9. Leonard Peltier on the Trail of Broken Treaties Protest (1999) (RSJ Reader) 10.

__**Unit Twelve – The Vietnam War and Its Effects on American Society**__ 1. 2.   - Part I (Presidential Views), and Part II (American Intervention) 3. – alternate assignment if you do not see Platoon in class.