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Reading “The Idea of America” by Nikole Hannah-Jones
In Nikole Hannah-Jones’ essay, she writes, “[T]he year 1619 is as foundational to the American
story as 1776...black Americans, as much as those men cast in alabaster in the nation’s capital,
are this nation’s true ‘founding fathers.’”
Use this table to track evidence she provides for this claim by citing examples of racial
oppression (on the left) and examples of black resistance (on the right).
How have U.S. laws, policies, and How have black Americans fought back
practices oppressed black Americans against oppression and worked to build
since the year 1619? a better society for all?
These materials were created to support The 1619 Project, published in The New York Times Magazine August
2019. You can find this and more educational resources at www.pulitzercenter.org/1619
