Lesson Plan

Racial Justice Resources

Use this resource page to guide your students as they learn about AWTT portrait subjects who have engaged with Racial Justice issues.

Essential Questions:

What is racial justice?
How does racial justice differ from racial equality?
What are stereotypes, and how are they created?
What factors shape our identity, and how do they benefit/harm us?
What influences decision making about racial justice?

Truth Tellers and Racial Justice

Lesson: Who are the AWTT Portrait Subjects?

Using our lesson plan Who are the AWTT portrait subjects?, choose three of the portrait subjects listed below. This lesson will help students learn more about the portrait subjects’ lives and their commitment to racial justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lesson: Speaking Truth to Youth – Racial Justice (video interviews)

Use our Speaking Truth to Youth Intro Lesson to explore three of these portrait subjects and what we can learn from them.

Other resources to explore:

Learning for Justice

Educator Tools for Teaching about Race (Smithsonian)

Facing History and Ourselves: Racial Justice Resources

Integrate AWTT activities into multiple content areas:

Connect what your students are learning in a variety of content areas – science, social studies, English language arts, math, creative arts – by completing the following activities:

Select four of the suggested portraits. After reading the bios, discuss the meaning of the quotes. What challenges do the quotes present?
Dig deeper! Register for the Samantha Smith Challenge to help your students take a deeper dive into Racial Justice.