Primary Source Learning: Black American History & Heritage
Primary Source sets with teacher guides
- Baseball: Across a Divided Society
- Harlem Renaissance
- Jim Crow in America
- The NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom
Guided primary source analysis activities
- Afro-American Monument
- An airship with a “Jim Crow” trailer
- The Brownies’ Book
- Condition of the descendants of former African slaves
- The constitutional amendment
- Jesse Owens
- President Obama’s 2016 State of the Union Address
- Tree of Liberty
- Woman Fingerprinted
Lesson plans
- After Reconstruction: Problems of African Americans in the South
- African American Identity in the Gilded Age: Two Unreconciled Strivings
- Amateur Night @ the Apollo Race Relations
- Ballad of Booker T.
- Baseball, Race and Ethnicity: Rounding the Bases
- Baseball, Race Relations and Jackie Robinson
- Capturing Character on Camera
- Close Reading in Service of a Cause
- To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers
- Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
- Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record
- We Shall Overcome
Collection Connections: primary source activity ideas
- The African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920 (find items via African Americans in Ohio collection)
- African-American Perspectives from the Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection 1818-1907
- Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights 1860s-1960s
- Provident Hospital: Black Health & Wellness 1940s
- Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project 1936-1938
- From Slavery to Freedom – African-American Pamphlet Collection 1824-1909
- Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860
Timely Connections: ideas for linking past to present
- Frederick Douglass & Scientific Racism
- James Madison & Slavery
- Individual Influence
- Slavery & Compromise
Teaching with the Library: Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators
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