Re-imagining Migration
Making Americans continues! 📚
📣 Lesson 11: Tape v. Hurley
Written by Jessica Lander, 2023 MA History Teacher of the Year and author of the George Orwell Award-winning book Making Americans.
In this lesson, students explore the story of Mary Tape and her daughter Mamie, who in 1884 was denied entry to a San Francisco public school because of her Chinese ancestry.
📚 Grades 8–12
⏰ 55 minutes – One class period
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07/04/2026
A nation of immigrants, from the very beginning. Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 18 were either immigrants or children of immigrants.
The story of American independence has always been a story of migration.
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