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Unit TitleAuthorYear

The Black Press and the Philadelphia Tribune

Florence B. Oliver 2006
Keywords: advanced placement, African American History, black community, media in our society, Philadelphia Tribune, social science, us history

Seminar: 20th Century American Literature


Jim Crow and Apartheid: Walking hand in hand to the Promised Land

Stacia D. Parker 2007
Keywords: African American History, America, Apartheid, Harlem Renaissance, political literature, South Africa, think globally

Seminar: American Capitalism


African American Women Workers in 19th Century and 20th Century Philadelphia

Myrtle Bastien 2007
Keywords: African American History, African American women, American economic system, poverty, racial prejudice

Seminar: American Political Culture


The African American and the Woman Suffrage Movement

Myrtle Bastien 2009
Keywords: African American, African American women, class discrimination, disenfranchised, gender discrimination, High School, important struggle, partisan interests, racial discrimination, right to vote

Reconstruction: The Promises and Failures of Post-Civil War America

Hye-Won Gehring and Shanee Garner 2009
Keywords: 10th grade, 11th grade, African American History, American History, economic tropes, English, High School, historical contexts, literacy skills, political, Reconstruction, social, student-centered

Fashion Trends: A Reflection of Our Political Culture

Ardeth Gilmore 2009
Keywords: 20th century, American Colonial period, American History, change, European history, fashion, fashion and politics, fashion fads, fashion trends, Industrial Revolution, major political events, political attitudes, political culture, postindustrial

From Little Rock to Philadelphia: A Look at School Desegregation

Alison McCartney 2009
Keywords: Arkansas, Central High School, desegregation, little rock, Little Rock Nine, Philadelphia, racial inequalities, Research, school desegregation, Warriors Don't Cry

Early Abolitionists in Philadelphia

Sandy O’Keefe 2009
Keywords: 8th grade, abolitionists, African American, anti-slavery, Colonial America, end to slavery, Philadelphia, Quakers

Civil Rights Era and the African American Experience: Investigating American History through a Literary Lens

Erin Swan-Potras 2009
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, African American figures, Alabama, American Civil Rights Movement, Birmingham, Children's March, Civil Rights Movement, commercialism, discrimination, Historical Context, Music, political context, segregation, social context, Technology, video

Seminar: American Racial Politics


American Racial Politics and A Little Town Called Arthington

Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe 2012
Keywords: Africa, Arthington, History, racial politics

Seminar: Art and the Life of the City


Dance, Readings, Acting, Music, and Art (D.R.A.M.A.): A Study of African American Performing and Visual Arts in the 1940s – 1950s

Leslie Carlis 2007
Keywords: acting, African American, Art, dance, Music, performing arts, Reading, visual arts

Paul Robeson, African-American Artist, and the McCarthy Era

Carole Chernecky 2007
Keywords: African American, American Literature, Art, artist, Drama, Elgnish, Identity, Paul Robeson, social justice, social studies

The Harlem Renaissance

Richard P. Holmes 2007
Keywords: African American, African American art, African American History, dance, History, Literature, Music, The Harlem Renaissance

Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White and the Taller de Grafica Popular of Mexico

Audrey J. Jackson 2007
Keywords: African American art, Art, artists, Mexico, printmaking, social awareness

The Life and Work of Dox Thrash: An Expression of Identity

Pamela Toller 2007
Keywords: African American art, African American History, Art, cultural climate, Culture, Dox Thrash, History, political climate, social climate

Seminar: Biography as History, or, Perhaps, History as Biography


“Men of Bronze”: Reflecting on Legacy of the Hellfighters of Harlem

Tara Ann Carter 2016
Keywords: African Americans, comic books, English, graphic novels, Harlem Hellfighters, History, Max Brooks, Military History, New York, primary source documents, Secondary Source Documents, Sociology, soldiers, The Great Migration, World War I, Writing Workshop

The Haitian Revolution and Governor General Toussaint Louverture: A Biography

Keysiah M. Middleton 2016
Keywords: High School, social studies

Seminar: Cinema and Civil Rights


From “We Shall Overcome” to “Black Lives Matter”: Learning from the Present, Building on the Past

Geoffrey Winikur 2020
Keywords: Black Art, Black Lives Matter, civil rights, collaborative learning, culturally responsive teaching, dialogic teaching, feminist pedagogy, inquiry-based learning

Teaching African American Culture Through Cinema

Chanelle Harley 2020
Keywords: African American culture, American History, cinema, community, film, History

The Ongoing Black Freedom Struggle: Expanding the Single Story of the Civil Rights Movement

Pearl Jonas 2020
Keywords: American History, Civil Rights Movement, film, History