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We need more black and brown teachers but not for the reasons you think

The Hechinger Report

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. Photo: New York Public Library Digital Collections. Black teachers may have a larger policy impact when they teach white students.”. Washington teaches a class in 1916.

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The Election of FDR and the Immediate Response to the Great Depression

ACRE

Marcus Witcher and covers the 1932 election, the transition of power from the Hoover to FDR administration, and early economic policies designed to combat the Great Depression. The lesson could be used as a precursor to a unit on the New Deal in history classrooms or as a case study on economic policy impacts in a social science course.