Unit Title	Author
2013
Economic Restrictions and Opportunities of Freed People	Bernadette McHenry
Keywords: African American History, freedmen, High School, primary sources, Reconstruction, social studies
50 Years and Beyond:Philadelphia after the Emancipation Proclamation	Terry Anne Wildman
Keywords: English, History, language arts, literacy, Pennsylvania History, social studies
“Everybody But Me”: The Historical Implications of the Struggle for Civil Rights on Culture, Education, and Politics in the 21st Century	Erin Bloom
Keywords: African American History, civil rights, education, History, Politics, Slavery
Abraham Lincoln: Discovering an Iconic President	Teresa Coyle-Kahn
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln, African American History month, Government, Presidents
The Civil Rights Era	Richard P. Holmes
Keywords: American History, civil rights, civil rights era
2012
American Racial Politics and A Little Town Called Arthington	Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe
Keywords: Africa, Arthington, History, racial politics
2011
Stop The Violence: Music is the Message	Regina Perrulli
Keywords: African American History, Music, rap, Slavery, violence
2009
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
Reconstruction: The Promises and Failures of Post-Civil War America	Hye-Won Gehring and Shanee Garner
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
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
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
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
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
2008
Sew Me a Story: African and African American “Quilt Lore”	Kelly Graham
Keywords: African American History, American History, elementary school, human experience, quilt, Quilt Lore, quilting, stories and designs, storytelling
Using Elder Stories to Understand the Continuity of History	Meagan C. McGowan
Keywords: broader historical narratives, folk lore, folk lorists, local resources, make history relevant, Reading, stories of elders
Philadelphia Stories: African Transitions from West Africa to Philadelphia as a Means to Study Oral Histories	Stephanie R. Wicks
Keywords: African American History, African immigrants in Philadelphia, English, ethnography, historical research, historiography, learn content through oral history, learning history, love of history, love of learning, oral history project, story time, storytelling
Hip Hop Notions	Audrey J. Jackson
Keywords: African American painters, break dancing, Bronx, expressive performance, fashion, hip hop life style, hip-hop, Jamaica, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kingston, listening, rap music, rhyming, speaking, Visual Art, visual graffiti, writing, youth culture
2007
African American Women Workers in 19th Century and 20th Century Philadelphia	Myrtle Bastien
Keywords: African American History, African American women, American economic system, poverty, racial prejudice
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