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Students will be involved in drawing evaluative conclusions about our U.S. role in the world today and into the future based upon the direction provide by President Harry S. Truman beginning in 1945.

Through cooperative learning and interaction students will examine how our past can have a real impact on our existence. This lesson will incorporate technology (the use of the internet) and various primary and secondary sources.

Journals/diaries written by the students from the viewpoint of Japanese Americans sent to the internment camps during WWII that include multimedia and social media aspects. This is an individual activity that is researched based with technology aspects that uses primary and secondary resources.

This will be a technology-based, analysis, assignment that will focus on primary source documents of President Truman's viewpoints on race and letters that Brooklyn Dodgers Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson wrote to former Presidents.

Students will write a letter to an appropriate government official arguing for or against the use of the Special Minimum Wage Certificate.

Students will research the historical cause of desegregating the Armed Forces.

Individual research to find contrasting evidence for change based on the 1929 DePriest Tea Incident.

The student will analyze the role of the President of the United States in the Civil Rights movement and desegregation.

In this lesson, students will be asked to analyze two groups of the letters written to President Truman concerning the desegregation of the United States military.  One group of letters will be supportive of the Desegregation of the US military and the second group of letters will voice opposition to the desegregation of the military.  

Students will predict why Truman decided to desegregate the military. Students will then work in groups to analyze relevant primary documents to seek clarification for Truman's decision. Finally, each student will use evidence from the documents to write an essay arguing why Truman decided to desegregate the military.