Unit 10 9-12: Desired Results
Big Ideas
- Humans have segregated and oppressed other humans from the dominant society according to race, ethnicity, religion, and class to exert power and control.
Enduring Understandings
- Although Republican administrations integrated the City of Washington and the Federal Government after the Civil War until the Woodrow Wilson administration in 1913, there was de facto segregation in the city’s private sector.
Essential Questions
- Why was there private (de facto) segregation in Washington, D.C., even though the City and the Federal Government were integrated (de jure)?
Why was there “the chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag?”
Objectives
- Students will be able to:
- discern the “Big Picture.”
- determine where this speech fits into the history of the United States.
- evaluate the speech and determine how it contributed to awareness of the plight of Blacks in Washington, D.C., and the United States.
- to articulate where this speech fits into the Social, Political, Economic, Environmental, and Cultural context of history.
Key Terms and Definitions
- De facto – existing, especially when contrary to or not established by law
- De jure – according to law; by right.
- Prosaic – without interest, imagination, and excitement
- Sobriquet – a name given to someone or something that is not theirs or its real or official name.