Secondary Source Reading

• Robert Forrant, Overview of Immigration in Essex County, MA 1840-present

• Brian Sheehy, Irish Immigration Lawrence, MA

• Glennys Sánchez, Techniques for Creating a Safe/Brave Space for Difficult Classroom Conversations

Lawrence History Center has many digitized sources, including oral histories, to explore local immigration history; El sendero and The Path are digitized tours of the city

Immigration UMass Lowell website: immigration history digital archive that looks at the history of New England immigration with a focus on Lowell. Includes curriculum suggestions, maps, oral histories, and other visuals. lnei.uml.edu

Brown University’s Choices Program Immigration History and Debate resources: excellent set of classroom resources for understanding the complex issue of immigation in both a historic context helping students think about current-day issues from multiple perspectives. https://www.choices.edu/curriculum-unit/immigration-u-s-policy-debate/

Teaching Tolerance’s immigration resources: “resources to help teach accurately about immigration and offer undocumented and ELL students resources and support. Address immigration myths, research changing demographics and explore the value of a diverse society.”

https://www.tolerance.org/topics/immigration

Teaching for Change Caribbean Connections: Set of resources for teaching about the Caribbean experience, including a focus on the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico

https://www.teachingforchange.org/caribbean-connections

Facing History and Ourselves Global Immigration: collections of resources, lessons and units for teaching about immigration with ideas for exploring identity, what it means to be “American,” current events, and history.

https://www.facinghistory.org/topics/global-immigration

• Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence Massachusetts, 1945-2000 by Llana Barber, 2017

• Immigration City Lawrence, MA 1845-1921 by Donald Cole, 1963.

• History of Lawrence, MA by Maurice Dougan

Recommended by Glennys Sánchez:

• Not Light; But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations, Matthew R. Kay

• Being an anti-racist educator- Denna Simmons

• Abolitionist Teaching Network

• #disrupt texts- #Disrupt Texts is a crowdsourced, grass roots effort by teachers for teachers to challenge the traditional canon in order to create a more inclusive, representative, and equitable language arts curriculum that our students deserve. It is part of our mission to aid and develop teachers committed to anti-racist/anti-bias teaching pedagogy and practices.

Amplify Latinx: This website includes reports about current-day opportunities and inequalities faced by Latinx communities in Massachusetts and other resources about Latinx civic engagement that may be interesting for students.