Portraiture of Resistance is an exhibit at America's Black Holocaust Museum, located at the intersection of North Avenue and 4th Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Through art and poetry, visitors come to understand those African-Americans who have fought against injustice in our country.
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The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, formerly the DuSable Museum of African American History, is a museum in Chicago that is dedicated to the study and conservation of African-American history, culture, and art. It was founded in 1961 by Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, her husband Charles Burroughs, Gerard Lew, Eugene Feldman, Bernard Goss, Marian M. Hadley, and others. They established the museum to celebrate black culture, at the time overlooked by most museums and academic establishments. The museum has an affiliation with the Smithsonian Institution.
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Whether school groups visit the acrtual community of Pleasant Ridge near Grant County, Wisconsin or view the replica at Old World Wisconsin, students will be transported back in time to a place where African-Americans ran their own community and lived in peaceful integration with their neighbors of various ethnic backgrounds. A visit to either location is sure to engage students in critical thinking and interviewing skills as students look to gain insight into what life must have been like during that era.
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The Wisconsin Black Historical Society/Museum (WBHSM), located on the corners of North 27 and West Center Streets in Milwaukee, Wisconsin opened its door and its heart to the community, city, and state in 1987. Based on the premise that a people who know their history will grow to love and appreciate themselves more, WBHSM strives to create a bright future out of a heart-breaking past. With limited physical space and reduced visitation hours, one of WBHSM's most valued treasures are its videos of various aspects of African-American culture available on its website. WBHSM documents and preserves the historical heritage of African descent in Wisconsin. WBHSM exhibits, collects and disseminates materials depicting this heritage. Serving as a resource center for all people interested in Wisconsin’s rich African American heritage, the Museum’s purpose is to encourage and promote family community and cultural activities.
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Goin' Someplace Special is a 2001 children's book by Patricia McKissack and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. It is about a young African American girl, Tricia Ann, who goes to the public library by herself during the time of the Jim Crow Laws in America. Along the way, Tricia Ann encounters multiple forms of segregation. The book is quasi-autobiographical in nature in that author Patricia McKissack has indicated that as a young girl growing up during that era of American history, she had encountered various forms of segregation; the library, where her love of writing began, was often times her place of refuge. It is my personal opinion that this book be delivered as a classroom read aloud, with the teacher having spent time prior to delivery both sharpening one's own background knowledge in the civil rights era of American history as well as preparing criticasl thinking questions to use throughout the read aloud.
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This project is a great resource to the Grant County Historical Society (GCHS) and the Platteville area as it deals with a history not often told and one the GCHS does not have the resources to tackle on their own. Several of the student reserchers said “I hope that the exhibit will remind visitors of the complexity of our history and that there is always more to be told.”Even the boards used for the displays had a local connection. They were designed by a Lancaster native who earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in graphic design from UW-Platteville.By visiting the cemetery for photos and getting the opportunity to compile the information for the board from the historical markers and the Wisconsin Historical Society, researchers were able to connect and learn more about an area that they thought they were already familiar with.
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The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (NURFC) is a beacon of hope that sits in downtown Cincinnati just a few steps from the banks of the Ohio River, the great natural barrier that separated the slave states of the South from the free states of the North. Since opening in 2004, the NURFC has filled a substantial void in our nation’s cultural heritage. Rooted in the stories of the Underground Railroad, the NURFC illuminates the true meaning of inclusive freedom by presenting permanent and special exhibits that inspire, public programming that provoke dialogue and action, and educational resources that equip modern abolitionists. It's vision is to be the preeminent cultural learning center for inclusive freedom — locally, nationally and globally.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Interactive, Reading
The core of the Choices Program is their award-winning curriculum units that include student readings, lesson plans, and activities to accompany and complement the readings. Student readings and teacher resources are written by the Choices writing team and approved by scholars. Engaging student readings and lesson plans reflect up-to-date historiography and equip students to develop the skills necessary for critical historical thinking and document analysis. Currently, Choices offers units for U.S. History, World History, Current Issues, and Geography, as well as many electives. Curriculum units are available in print format and in Digital Editions.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Unit of Study
Jeff Kannel is the author of Make Way for Liberty: Wisconsin African Americans in the Civil War. He has been a volunteer and tour guide at the Civil War Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, since 2012 and speaks around the state about the role of Wisconsin African American soldiers and employees during the Civil War.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities supports research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. In addition to grants, NEH also supports educators learning through institutes that can be fully funded and usually occur during summer months. Often times at the conclusion of said institutes, participants have the opportunity to develop curriculum with other educators to take back to their respective classrooms.
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The MUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA ( MoAD ), a contemporary art museum, celebrates Black cultures, ignites challenging conversations, and inspires learning through the global lens of the African Diaspora. MoAD is a part of the Smithsonian consortium of museums. While MoAD caters directly to third graders in the San Francisco area, there are a plethora of educational resources available to all educators at: https://www.moadsf.org/education.
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The William A. Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs provides almost 350 images showing African Americans and related military and social history. The Civil War era is the primary time period covered, with scattered examples through 1945. Most of the images are photographs, including 270 cartes de visite. Subjects of special note include Sojourner Truth, fugitive slaves, former slave children from New Orleans, and freed slaves at Seabrook Plantation in South Carolina. Military service photographs document participation in the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish American War, and World War I. Several photographs show Buffalo Soldiers, and one album is filled with portraits of officers of the 25th United States Colored Troops. Baseball is the theme for a group portrait from Danbury, CT, and a panoramic view of the 1924 Colored World Series opening game. In 1995, The Library of Congress purchased this collection from William A. Gladstone.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration
Programs | National Civil Rights Museum Virtual programs serve 50-1000 students & teachers and are geared for PreK-12 audiences. Programs are interactive and engaging but require minimal materials to participate. Program titles include:Young Activists Changing the WorldCivil Rights She-roesUnsung Heroes Who Led the WayMusic of the MovementInstruments of Change: The Power of Media & ArtThe Legacy of Dr. King: Where Do We Go from Here?Small But Mighty Storytime
Material Type: Interactive, Simulation
A large number of primary source collection materials related to African American history are digitized and available online via the Library of Congress's website, including manuscripts, newspaper articles, images, and rare books. In addition, the Library also provides digital content on African American history through their exhibition program, "Today in History" essays, and online research guides.
Material Type: Primary Source, Reading
EVERFI is a free online learning platform that provides free digital mini-courses to K-12 teachers. You will need to create an account, but then all access is free! This course can be assigned to students to work on individually, and will score assessments. It divides African American History into 4 periods, followed by a summative capstone essay: 1. Slavery Period: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Phyllis Wheatley, Underground Railroad 2. Emancipation & Reconstruction Period: Frederick Douglass, Hiram Revels 3. Jim Crow Period: Tuskegee Institute, W.E.B. Du Bois, Harlem Renaissance 4. Civil Rights Period & Beyond: Brown v. Board of Education, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Rides, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Mae Jemison 5. Capstone Essay
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Primary Source, Reading, Rubric/Scoring Guide
This is another free digital course for students to use through EVERFI. Once assigned by the teacher, students can work through the modules at their own pace, or only be assigned some of them. It is a follow-up to the 306: Digital African American History Curriculum, and focuses on more modern day issues: 1. Introduction- Counter Storytelling, Black History Before Slavery, Definition of Systemic Racism 2. Untold Stories- Juneteenth, Affirmative Action, LA Riots, Ferguson Protests, Million Man March, 2020 March on Washington, Black Lives Matter Movement 3. Black Business Titans-Golden Age of Black Business, Influential Black Business people, O.W.Gurley, Black Wall Street, Tulsa Race Massacre 4. Black Contributions to Medicine- Racial Inequities in Healthcare, Black Medical Trailblazers, Historical & Modern Racial Discrimination of Black People in Medical Practice
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Primary Source, Reading
Students will explore records from the U.S. House of Representatives to discover the story of Harriet Tubman’s Civil War service to the government and her petition to Congress for compensation. Although her service as a nurse, cook, and spy for the federal government is less well known than her work on the Underground Railroad, it was on that basis that she requested a federal pension after the War. Using historical thinking skills, students will examine the evidence of Tubman’s service and assess Congress’s decision to grant her a pension. Despite the endorsements of a number of highly ranked Civil War officials indicating the breadth of her service, Tubman ultimately secured a pension only as a widow of a Civil War veteran, not on the basis of her own service.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Primary Source
