Unit Title	Author
2017
From Civil Rights to #BlackLivesMatter: The Music Is the Movement	Amanda Schear
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights Movement, Compare and contrast, Informational text, literacy, Music, Protest movements, Protest music, Social change, social justice
Music as Activism: Warrior’s Don’t Cry and Protest in the Civil Rights Movement	Renae Curless
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Civil Rights Movement, integration, little rock, melba patillo beals, Music, poetry, racism, segregation
2015
“All of the Same Family”: The Fictional Science that Created America	Benjamin Hover
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Enlightenment, Human Experimentation, Kindred, science fiction, Scientific Racism
Un-Zombied and Magically Black: A Kaleidoscope of the African-American’s Supernatural World	Wendi Mungai Umoren
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Enlightenment, Human Experimentation, Kindred, science fiction, Scientific Racism
African-American Narratives Exploratory: Detective Gazes & Futuristic Furies	Bonnee Breese Bentum
Keywords: African American literature, African-American authors, African-American heroes, Barbara Neely, Cosmic Slop, detective fiction, Easy Rawlins, fantasy, Great American Migration, Octavia Butler, race in fiction, Samuel Delany, science fiction, snitches, speculative fiction, time travel, UbD, Understanding by Design, Walter Mosley
2011
Connections to Literature	Nicole Flores
Keywords: African American literature, comprehension, Literature
2009
Imagery in Action	Donna L. Jones
Keywords: African American literature, african american poetry, Literature, poetry
2007
Recurring Themes of African American Folktales	Catherine Thornton Brownlee
Keywords: African American folktales, African American literature, Afro-American, language arts, Reading, symbolism, themes
Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and Students’ Poetic Perceptions of Contemporary Issues	Kemo Donita Logan
Keywords: African American literature, Compare and contrast, Harlem Renaissance, literacy revolution, poetry, social activism, social themes
Exploring African American Culture Through Literature	Susan King
Keywords: African American culture, African American literature, autistic support, books, comprehension skills, Reading, storytelling
2006
The Women of the Harlem Renaissance	Catherine Thornton-Brownlee
Keywords: African American culture, African American literature, The Harlem Renaissance
Women of the Harlem Renaissance	Megan Wapner
Keywords: African American literature, The Harlem Renaissance, women