Socratic Seminar: Reparations for African Americans (High School)

This high-school-level resource provides educators with instructions and student materials for facilitating a Socratic Seminar on the topic of reparations for African Americans. This Socratic Seminar Resource Set includes the following:

• Teacher facilitation guide
• Hook resource: The Racial Wealth Gap
• Text resources: 
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Statement to House Judiciary Committee
  • Coleman Hughes’ Statement to House Judiciary Committee
  • Civil Liberties Act of 1988
• Preparation resources:
  • Reparations for African Americans Vocabulary
  • Introduction: The History of Reparations
• Seminar Questions resource: Reparations for African Americans
• Extension resource: Private Reparations: Interview with Randy Quarterman and Sarah Eisner