San Diego seminar on Race and Membership. Facing History and Ourselves, Museum of Man, and Museum of Photographic Arts. Summer 2017.

1. Race and
Membership in
American History
An Interdisciplinary Approach

2. Thursday, August 3
Connections

3. Housing

4. Race: the Power of an Illusion

5. The Genesis of the Mortgage
Industry: HOLC
"Confidential Residential Security Maps for all major
U.S. cities were prepared by the Home Owners' Loan
Corporation (HOLC), with special assistance from
"competent local real estate brokers and mortgage
lenders, believed to represent a fair and composite
opinion of the best qualified local people".
Quote from "HOLC Division of Research and
Statistics with Cooperation of the Appraisal
Department, San Diego, October 20, 1936." (part of
the San Diego redlining files)

9. Time to explore
http://salt.umd.edu/T-RACES/demo/demo.html

10. What did you find?
Circle in a Circle /
Line Dance
What did you find most interesting in the pieces you
explored?
How have you seen the legacies of this?
Would you use this content with students? This
website? How?

11. SURJ

12. Lunch

13. Challenging
Eugenics-based
Education
Policies in
California
EDUCATION

14. “Public Education”
• Doors to Opportunity p. 109-112
• Identifying the “Unfit” p. 151-154
• Fears of Declining Intelligence p. 160-161
• Limiting Opportunity p. 167-170
• Challenging Racial Assumptions p. 172-175
• Lemon Grove
• Mendez v. Westminster
• Brown v. Board of Education

15. Lemon Grove Case -San Diego History
Roberto Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District (1931):
⦿ First successful school desegregation court decision in the history
of the United States.
⦿ Community took court action and won the case they established
the rights of their children to equal education
⦿ Local, regional and national sentiment that favored not only
segregation, but the actual deportation of the Mexican population
in the United States.
⦿ Testimony of the San Diego Mexican community’s rights and their
actions towards equality in education

16. LLemon Grove Film (58 mins, 15 secs)

17. Mendez v. Westminster, 1947
First state in the country to rule against school segregation.

18. Key Figures:
● Governor Earl Warren, who would later become Chief
Justice of the United States, where he would preside
over the Brown v. Board of Education case
● Thurgood Marshall lawyer who was best known for his
high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court
and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education,

20. Upstander
An “upstander” is someone who recognizes when
something is wrong and acts to make it right. When an
upstander sees or hears about someone being bullied,
they speak up. Being an upstander is being a hero: we
are standing up for what is right and doing our best to
help support and protect someone who is being hurt.

21. Choices in Little Rock
Young People as Upstanders

23. Jesus Colon -
Why Little Things Are Big
FHAO - Stream Online
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-
library/video/little-things-are-big-jes-s-col-n

24. Choosing to Participate
In San Diego

25. San Diego Upstanders
Resource list...

26. What can I do?
Not in Our School: No Human Being Was Born Illegal
https://www.niot.org/nios-video/no-human-being-was-born-
illegal

27. What am I taking with me?
3 strategies may implement
2 sessions where learned something new
1 question will continue to ponder

28. Next Steps
Links for this week (slides to be added after today)
Follow Up with Dan Alba

29. Evaluationshttp://hstry.is/S2016LA9