
FEBRUARY 24 - 28, 2025
The Intersection of Racism & Classism
COURSE OVERVIEW
The following schedule is the property of YWCA McLean County and it not to be duplicated or used without the express permission of the event organizer.
Items preceded by LIVE indicate real-time trainings or meetings; other materials are meant to be enjoyed at your convenience each day.
LIVE | In the Beginning...
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. via Zoom
We will kick off the Institute by unpacking how slavery and Jim Crow laws were and remain linked to white class advancement and notions of success. We exist in a zero-sum economic landscape where the gains of one group are often coded as the losses of another. This ideology, coupled with aggressive anti-Black racism, led to the burning of Black Wall Street and discriminatory processing of the GI Bill.
Watch: Racial Segregation and Concentrated Poverty: The History of Housing in Black America (6 min)
Read: Black Wall Steet (10 min)
Read: Not all WWII Veterans Benefitted Equally from the G.I. Bill (5 min)
Listen: “The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street” (25 min) by HISTORY This Week (also on Spotify or Apple)
Please be advised that the use of profanity or any slurs in the materials do not reflect the views of YWCA and are only present at the discretion of the respective creators of each resource.
Deliberate use of profanity and racial slurs will result in removal from interactive discussion groups within the Allyship Institute.
We invite people of all backgrounds, professions, and experience levels to join us for a week-long interactive, virtual learning experience to be better allies.
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