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education committee resources

TOP K-12 EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES


NAACP National Education Goals

https://www.naacp.org/issues/education/


Lebanon County School Board Meetings

Lebanon County School Board Meeting Spreadsheet


Fair Funding for Schools 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbVlLri7X2A&feature=youtu.be 

Racial Bias in PA School Funding (on YouTube) 


Learning for Justice (Formally Teaching Tolerance) Resources/Social Justice Standards/School Resources

https://www.learningforjustice.org/professional-development/facilitator-guides 

The Social Justice Standards are a road map for anti-bias education at every stage of K–12 instruction. Comprised of anchor standards and age-appropriate learning outcomes, the Standards provide a common language and organizational structure educators can use to guide curriculum development and make schools more just and equitable.


https://www.learningforjustice.org/professional-development/facilitator-guides

Facilitator Guide for the Social Justice Standards


https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources 

Free Classroom Resources and Lesson Plans available on the Teaching Tolerance website  


National History Day

https://nhd.org/en/resources/because-of-the-color-of-our-skin-400-years-of-african-american-history/

National History Day is proud to share the first edition in our Moving Freedom Forward: Teaching a More Inclusive History Series. This edition focuses on African American history. It is a collection of essays and lessons designed to help teachers present a more inclusive view of history reflecting current historical scholarship and practices. The goal of the series is to offer teachers access to cutting-edge scholarship, resources for research, and model lessons to show how to engage students with this content in the classroom. 


https://nhd.org/en/resources/because-of-the-color-of-our-skin-400-years-of-african-american-history/


https://powerinterfaith.org/campaigns/education/ 

Although POWER is a faith based community of activists, POWER believes that all children deserve great schools, regardless of race, ethnicity or income. They are organizing and mobilizing members of the Pennsylvania faith community to confront widespread, systemic and educational inequality throughout the state.


https://www.afsc.org/sites/default/files/documents/QuarkHIPPBrochure.pdf.pdf

The Help Increase the Peace Project (HIPP) invites participants to build nonviolent conflict resolution skills and to analyze the impact of social justice on their lives and in their communities and develop skills for action.


White Privilege

https://psychology.umbc.edu/files/2016/10/White-Privilege_McIntosh-1989.pdf


Racial Justice and Anti-Racism Resources

https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do 

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in social justice and civil rights issues and public interest litigation. You can sign up for their newsletter.


National Memorial for Peace and Justice

https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/memorial 

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, is a national memorial to commemorate the Black victims of lynching in the United States. This emotional and somber memorial acknowledges past racial terrorism, tells the stories of the victims, and advocates for Social Justice in America. Founded by the non-profit Equal Justice Initiative, it opened in downtown Montgomery, Alabama on April 26, 2018. 


Anti-racism-online-courses

Mashable.com is a site put together by Black educators that offers online classes (some free and some paid) covering everything from African history to modern-day anti-racism. Each of the  programs offered can be completed in the comfort of your home, and involves both historical education and contemporary tools for anti-racism work. (You'll see a lot of content that should be included in school curriculums but isn't normally.) If you've read racial justice books in the past and want to learn more, check out one of these online courses.


https://justiceinjune.org

This site has a compilation of resources for the purpose of providing a starting place for individuals trying to become better allies. Choose how much time you have each day to become more informed as step one to becoming an active ally to the black community:  10 minutes/day, 25 minutes/day, or 45 minutes/day. Each day has a link to learning resources and a schedule of what to do each day.


https://policebrutalitycenter.org/ 

Police Brutality Center -- a useful and informative website that includes information and resources on police brutality statistics over time in the U.S.; racial profiling by police; civil rights law; interacting with police if you have a disability; and more.


Anti-Racism 12 Step Program

http://rainternational.org/

Racists Anonymous, a 12 step program created by a pastor in CA to help people acknowledge their internal bias and work toward anti racism.


Implicit Bias

Takeatest.html

Harvard University Implicit Bias Test. Thoughts and feelings are “implicit” if we are unaware of them or mistaken about their nature. We have a bias when, rather than being neutral, we have a preference for (or aversion to) a person or group of people. Thus, we use the term “implicit bias” to describe when we have attitudes towards people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge.


Financial Literacy 

https://www.annuity.org/financial-literacy/black-community/ 

This article from the website of Annuity.org, titled "Financial Literacy in the Black Community," discusses how "Closing the racial wealth gap isn’t a simple fix.  But many experts say education and financial literacy can help. In this article, we identify the impact this knowledge gap has on the African American community — and explore how Black educators and financial advisors are working to close it."


Critical Race Theory

See this talk on "Critical Race Theory:  Engaging U.S. History Honestly" before the African American Historical Society of South Central PA on Jan. 16, 2022 by Lebanon Valley College Professor of History and Branch Secretary Michael Schroeder:   https://youtu.be/Xzp9JbIoNQk

education committee brochures

Below we provide images and PDF-file links to three brochures developed by the Education Committee.  We thank Members 1st Federal Credit Union for a generous grant to help defray the cost of printing.

Education Committee Brochures: adult reading

education committee brochures: reading for teens

education committee brochures: reading for children

Downloads

Lebanon County NAACP Adult Reading Brochure (pdf)Download
Lebanon County NAACP Teen Reading Brochure (pdf)Download
Lebanon County NAACP Children Reading Brochure (pdf)Download

more anti-racist resources

ADULT READING ON RACE & RACISM IN US HISTORY & SOCIETY


The resources below were compiled by Lebanon Valley College Professor of History and the current Secretary of the Branch Michael Schroeder.   Click on the link below the text for a PDF file listing these resources.


History of Systemic Racism in US Law, Society, Politics, Economics & Culture: Key Readings


  • Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (NY: Bold Type Books, 2016). Winner of the National Book Award.
  • Ibram X. Kendi, How To Be an Antiracist (NY: One World, 2019).
  • Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (2010).
  • Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020).
  • W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk(1903). https://www.gutenberg.org/files/408/408-h/408-h.htm 
  • Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (1975).
  • Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution (1988).
  • JStor Daily, “Institutional Racism: A Syllabus,” https://daily.jstor.org/institutionalized-racism-a-syllabus/ 


Systemic Racism in Contemporary Society: Some Readings & the Tip of the Iceberg


  • Dana Gerdeman, “Minorities Who ‘Whiten’ Job Resumes Get More Interviews,” May 17, 2017, Harvard Business School “Working Knowledge: Business Research for Business Leaders”. Summarizes a 2016 study by Profs. Katherine Decelles and James M. Collins at Harvard Business School demonstrating that racial discrimination remains widespread in the workplace.  LINK: https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes-get-more-interviews. 
  • Tami Luhby, “US Black-White Inequality in Six Stark Charts,” CNN, June 3, 2020. Charts show racial disparities in (1) wealth, (2) income, (3) unemployment, (4) poverty, (5) health care, and (6) Coronavirus deaths. Sources include US Census Bureau, the US Dept of Labor, the Federal Reserve, and the CDC.  LINK: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/black-white-us-financial-inequality/index.html 
  • Angela Hanks, Danyelle Solomon, and Christian E. Weller, “Systematic Inequality: How America's Structural Racism Helped Create the Black-White Wealth Gap,” February 21, 2018. Provides detailed empirical evidence from a wide range of sources on historical and contemporary racial disparities in wealth among Black and White Americans. LINK: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2018/02/21/447051/systematic-inequality/ 
  • Sarah Treuhaft, Abbie Langston, Justin Scoggins, Joanna Lee, and Manuel Pastor, “The Racial Equity Index: A New Data Tool to Drive Local Efforts to Dismantle Structural Racism.” July 23, 2020. Index reveals significant racial inequities even in the most prosperous cities and metros; provides data to help leaders develop targeted strategies for inclusive prosperity. LINK: https://nationalequityatlas.org/research/index-findings 
  • Website of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health, a multidisciplinary, collaborative research center housed in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). “Research” section houses links to a wide range of specific studies demonstrating systemic racism in US society, especially with respect to health issues. LINK: https://www.racialhealthequity.org/data 
  • Rashawn Ray, “Is the United States a Racist Country?” May 4, 2021, The Brookings Institution. LINK:  https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/05/04/is-the-united-states-a-racist-country/ 
  • Meilan Solly, "158 Resources to Understand Racism in America," Smithsonian Magazine, June 4, 2020. Articles, videos, podcasts & websites from the Smithsonian chronicle the history of anti-black violence & inequality in the United States. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/158-resources-understanding-systemic-racism-america-180975029/ 
  • Shayanne Gal, Andy Kiersz, Michelle Mark, Ruobing Su, and Marguerite Ward, “26 simple charts to show friends and family who aren't convinced racism is still a problem in America,” Business Insider, July 8, 2020. LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/us-systemic-racism-in-charts-graphs-data-2020-6 

Download the above list as a pdf file

Systemic_Racism_USA_Resources (pdf)

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race & racism: defining our terms

Taken from Ibram X. Kendi, How To Be an Antiracist (NY: One World, 2019).


Race: A power construct of collected or merged difference that lives socially. An illusion and mirage with life-shaping power that is created by racist power, i.e., racist policymakers.

Racism: A marriage of racist policies and racist ideas that produces and normalizes racial inequities.

Racial inequity: When two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing.

Racial equity: When two or more racial groups are standing on relatively equal footing.

Racist policy: Any measure that produces or sustains racial inequity between racial groups.

Antiracist policy: Any measure that produces or sustains racial equity between racial groups.

Policy: Written and unwritten laws, rules, procedures, processes, regulations, and guidelines that govern people.

Non-racist or race-neutral policy: Does not exist. Every policy in every institution in every community in every nation is producing or sustaining either racial inequity or equity between racial groups.

Racist: One who is supporting a racist policy through their actions or inaction or expressing a racist idea.

Antiracist: One who is supporting an antiracist policy through their actions or expressing an antiracist idea. One who is expressing the idea that racial groups are equals and none needs developing, and is supporting policy that reduces racial inequity.

Institutional racism / structural racism / systemic racism: Redundant terms, given that racism is itself institutional, structural, and systemic. 

Racial discrimination: An immediate and visible manifestation of an underlying racial policy. Treating, considering, or making a distinction in favor or against an individual based on that person’s race. Racial discrimination is not inherently racist.  

Antiracist discrimination: Creates greater racial equity.

Racist discrimination: Creates greater racial inequity.

The remedy to racist discrimination: antiracist discrimination. 

Assimilationist: One who is expressing the racist idea that a racial group is culturally or behaviorally inferior and is supporting cultural or behavioral enrichment programs to develop that racial group.

Segregationist: One who is expressing the racist idea that a permanently inferior racial group can never be developed and is supporting policy that segregates away that racial group.

Biological racist:  One who is expressing the idea that races are meaningfully different in their biology and that these differences create a hierarchy of value.

Biological antiracist: One who is expressing the idea that the races are meaningfully the same in their biology and there are no genetic racial differences.

Cultural racist: One who is creating a cultural standard and imposing a cultural hierarchy among racial groups.

Cultural antiracist: One who is rejecting cultural standards and equalizing cultural differences among racial groups.

Powerless defense: The illusory, concealing, disempowering, and racist idea that Black people can’t be racist because Black people don’t have power. .

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