ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an acknowledgment of the educational debt owed to Black and other disenfranchised Americans. The educational debt is followed by a historical overview of the voting rights era and its relevance to the current political landscape. While president of the American Educational Research Association, Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings presented research on the educational debt owed to Black and Indigenous people from historical, economic, sociological, and moral perspectives. According to the documentary Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, the right to vote was the ultimate symbol of freedom for Blacks in America. Teachers of mathematics can build student awareness of #BlackLivesMatter by using data collected on traffic stops as well as policies like Broken Windows and Stop-and-Frisk. Broken Windows, or “order maintenance policing,” began as a law enforcement policy in New York City in the late 1990s.
