Unit Title	Author
2020
African American Hair, Freedom, and Civil Rights: Using Film, Media, and African American Hair Styles to Analyze Civil Rights	Aisha Al-Muid
Keywords: African American, cinema, civil rights, film, freedom, Hair, Media
2016
To Write with Fire: Unapologetic Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement	Wendi Mungai Umoren
Keywords: aesthetics, African American, black arts movement, Harlem Renaissance, literary period, poetry, revolution, racism
2009
Looking at the Black Experience in America Through African American Poetry	Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: 5th grade, Black experience in America, African American, History, poems, poetry, Reading, writing
The African American and the Woman Suffrage Movement	Myrtle Bastien
Keywords: African American, African American women, class discrimination, disenfranchised, gender discrimination, High School, important struggle, partisan interests, racial discrimination, right to vote
Early Abolitionists in Philadelphia	Sandy O’Keefe
Keywords: abolitionists, 8th grade, African American, anti-slavery, Colonial America, end to slavery, Philadelphia, Quakers
2008
The African, Caribbean and African American Cultural Connection	Keysiah M. Middleton
Keywords: African, African American, aesthetic values, connect to Africa, cultural expression, Black Atlantic, dance, Food, interlinked groups, Music, language, pride, shared African background, shared awareness
Folktales: Trickster Stories Across Time – From African Ancestors to African American Rappers	Wilda Hayward
Keywords: African, African American, African Diaspora, African folktales, anthropology, ESOL, folktales, hip-hop, legacy, Middle Passage, rap, trickster stories, West African storytellers
Using Rap Lyrics as a Resource in the Secondary English Classroom	Lisa Kelly
Keywords: African American, analyze, African-based American art form, Bronx, city students, comments on current events, enjoy, literary devices, literary skills, literary styles, rap music, rap tells stories, relevant to student life, tells stories, trace themes
2007
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
Keywords: acting, African American, Art, dance, Music, performing arts, Reading, visual arts
Paul Robeson, African-American Artist, and the McCarthy Era	Carole Chernecky
Keywords: African American, American Literature, Art, artist, Drama, Elgnish, Identity, Paul Robeson, social justice, social studies
The Harlem Renaissance	Richard P. Holmes
Keywords: African American, African American art, African American History, dance, History, Literature, Music, The Harlem Renaissance