Black History Month All Year Long
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And your journey begins. Tall Blue Markers tell the stories.
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 This Underground Railroad House is where the abolitionists met, had their secret meetings and hid the slaves who were going north. |
 This is the path that went to their hide out. |
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 This property was across the street and they hid slaves, ammunition, and food. |
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This is Fayette Street in Conshohocken, PA where Private Edward Hector is from and where the sign is located. |
Area history: "Guidebook to Historic Germantown", 1902 Edition of a "Guidebook to Historic Germantown". One of the opening pages contains a poem written by Francis Daniel Pastorius, the agent for the Frankfort Company, and the leader of the original thirteen settlers who came to Germantown.
CLASSROOM RESOURCES TOP
Brown vs. Board of Education: Kenneth Clark did a test in the 1950's which was replicated in 2007 by a film student Kiri Davis a young filmmaker whose high school documentary has left audiences at film festivals across the country stunned -- and has re-ignited a powerful debate over race.
This is how it all started..."The Children of Birmingham", Winner of the Youth Video Award
Dr. Martin Luther King . . listen, look, read and learn!
PRINT OUT I HAVE A DREAM by Martin Luther King, Jr. Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963
"The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. . . .
I have a Dream Speech real audio or wav
Also: See God Bless America
LEARN HISTORY THROUGH SONG, MUSIC, POETRY, and the ARTS TOP
Make history relevant - make it personal - hook this into your state standard - hook them through songs across time.
STUDENTS LOVE MUSIC - Your students can make history and become the primary source. Discuss daily life, including traditions in art, music, and literature, of early national America - Classroom teachers do not need to sing or play music all you need is this website to find the songs and primary sources. The fine arts will grab the imagination and hook your students. Take your time here, so that you don't miss any of the treasures to share. . .
The Funk Brothers & Chaka Khan Chaka doing an EXCELLENT - version of the Marvin Gaye hit - accompanied by the legendary Funk Brothers with some nostalgic civil rights footage!!!
Who Are the Funk Brothers? Far more than just an offering for "Black History" Month All Year Long, these interdisciplinary resources will provide thoughtful curriculum across K - Higher Ed grade levels. Identify what fits the learning needs of YOUR students.
Streaming Video
I HAVE A DREAM
100% LITERACY FOR ALL CHILDREN IN THE US.
RACISM - 50 Years Later Brown vs. Board of Education - Think Linguistic Rights.
Louisiana Code Noir 1724 Royal Edict about the Discipline of Slaves. The Legacy of Rev. Al Sharpton's great-grandfather was a slave owned by the family of late Sen. Strom Thurmond, best known for advocating segregation.
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1961 MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM RIDERS PROJECT
A SLIDE TOWARD SEGREGATION
Public schools are less integrated today than they were in 1970. In the South, many school systems, once segregated by law, have been freed from court oversight and, with the return to neighborhood schools, have reverted to their former state. The percentage of black children attending schools that are mostly minority increased from 66 percent in 1991 to 73 percent in 2003, according to the Harvard Civil Rights Project. Communities trying to do better than this should be celebrated, not sued, writes Ruth Marcus.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801275.html
Work Songs in a Texas Prison
FOLKTALES TOP
TWO Original Anansi Folktale Ebooks.
The only source online or in print!
The Virgin Islands Dutch Creole folktale was collected by a Dutch anthropologist, J. P. B. de Josselin de Jong, who visited the Virgin Islands in 1923.
Stories of the people, often passed from elders to the next generation. Help your students learn through the oral tradition. Download, read, and hear each story narrated in both American Virgin Island Creole and Standard English, plus find out how these stories survived in tact from the original storyteller.
De Josselin de Jong does not say who told him this story. However, we do know that all of the people who told him stories lived on St. Thomas and St. John and that they spoke both Dutch Creole and Virgin Islands English. A Brother Anansi and Brother Tecoma Stories spoken in Standard English and Negerhollands English.
Follow the Drinking Gourd - Is This Song 'Authentic'?
It could not possibly have been sung by escaping slaves, because it was written by Lee Hays eighty years after the end of the Civil War. Also find “The Underground Railroad Quilt Controversy: Looking for the 'Truth'" lecture by Laurel Horton.
LESSON PLANNING TOP
There's something for everyone here. . . from broad, overview sites to uniquely focused sites, here is the content for developing engaging lessons for your students.
New York City Buriel Grounds - buy it for $130.oo and SET IT FREE as a shared public resource for all.
FACT . . .
DO YOU KNOW HOW BLACK HISTORY MONTH GOT STARTED?
In 1920, Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950) founded Associated Publishers, the for-profit arm of ASALH Inc., which was founded in 1915. The Associated Publishers is responsible for the publication and circulation of ASALH's renowned Afro-American History Month Kits. In February 1926, he announced the institution of Negro History Week, which coincided with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In 1976, the observance was expanded to "National Afro-American History Month", in honor of the nation's bicentennial. Beginning in 1975, U.S. Presidents have paid tribute to the mission of the association and urged all Americans to celebrate Afro-American History Month, which we now make available to you all year long.
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TOP
Find the UnderGround Railroad!
Butler Pike and Germantown Ave.
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
Background information, and ready-made curriculum . . . these links provide the resources to really delve into this topic!
"When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything." -
Camp William Penn from 1863 to 1865 was the training grounds of the first African-American troops ever enlisted into the United States Army during the American Civil War. The Union Army training camp was located in the La Mott section of Cheltenham township, Pennsylvania Cheltenham was established in 1682 by 15 Quakers from Cheltenham, England, including Richard Wall and Toby Leech, who purchased 4,070 acres of land from William Penn. These soldiers were at General Lee's surrender, helped hunt down John Wilkes Booth and were the only African-American soldiers to carry President Lincoln's casket.
Cheltenham, PA was notable for being the first training grounds for African American troops who had enlisted in the United States Army during the American Civil War.
The USCT (United States Colored Troops) 3rd Regiment were the first to be trained at Camp William Penn. It is tradition that soldiers have a grand parade before leaving for war, but Philadelphia was partially a racist community at that time and the government believed that a parade might cause a riot, so it was cancelled. The leader of the Camp (Colonel Louis Wagner) was furious and made sure the next regiment to come through would have a parade. Cheltenham was incorporated as a township in 1900.
Legendary Paul Robeson (1898 -- 1976) son of a slave, sings his famous song performed live in Moscow in 1949 Hw was an American actor, athlete, singer, writer, civil rights activist, and a great humanist. Paul graduated with honors from his high school in Somerville, New Jersey, where he excelled academically, and participated in singing, acting, and athletics. Robeson later studied law at Columbia and African history and languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London. Robeson found fame as an actor and singer with his fine bass-baritone voice. He is one of the few true basses in American music, his beautiful and powerful voice descending as low as a C below the bass clef. In addition to his stage performances, his renditions of old Negro spirituals were acclaimed. Robeson also became interested in the folk music of the world. He came to be conversant with 20 languages, fluent or near fluent in 12. His standard reportoire after the 1920's included songs in many languages (e.g., Chinese, Russian, Yiddish, German, etc.). Between 1925 and 1942 Robeson appeared in eleven films, in the UK and the USA ("Song of Freedom", "The Proud Valley", "The Emperor Jones", "Show Boat", "King Solomon's Mines", "Jericho", etc.).
In June 1949 during the 150th anniversary celebration of the birth of Alexander Pushkin, Robeson visited Russia to sing in concert and was given a warm public welcome. Robeson remains a celebrated figure in Wales. A number of Welsh artists have celebrated Robeson's life. In 1958, Robeson's 60th birthday was celebrated in several US cities and twenty-seven countries across Europe, the Soviet Union, Latin America, Asia and Africa. Over 3000 people gathered in Carnegie Hall to salute Robeson's 75th birthday, including Dizzy Gillespie, Odetta, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte (who also produced the show). In 1976, at the age of 77, Paul Robeson died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was interred in the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. In 1998, he received a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2004, the United States Postal Service honored Robeson with a stamp in the Black Heritage Series. Listen to Paul Robeson's deep voice and enjoy this fantastic performance!
AMISTAD TOP
These links cover the issues and inequities of slavery. . . from the specifics of the Amistad revolt to the slavery that exists in today's world. These resources deserve a thoughtful look. In January 1839, a group of Mende Tribe Africans, were captured by Spanish traders and shipped to Cuba, where the Africans were bought by two plantation owners who intended to take them to their own plantations on another part of the island on the ship La Amistad. During that journey, the Mende revolted against their captors and tried to force the Spanish to sail them back to Africa. The riveting trial of the Amistad Africans, including their legal defense by former President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, began in Connecticut and led to the U.S. Supreme Court.
African Slave Owners
Many societies in Africa with kings and hierarchical forms of government traditionally kept slaves. But these were mostly used for domestic purposes. They were an indication of power and wealth and not used for commercial gain. However, with the appearance of Europeans desperate to buy slaves for use in the Americas, the character of African slave ownership changed.
TEACHING IN CONTEXT Grades 4 - 12
ONLINE CLASS PROJECT:TOP
Help children develop the use of technology as a tool for learning and for use in all sorts of career related ways in the real world, by teaching "skills" with a learner-centered constructivist approach.
Skills are important, and you ARE helping your students develop them if you are providing learner-centered/constructivist events, and hands-on (experiential), facilitated discovery. Anyway you approach it, the learner almost always develops both a knowledge base of skills and/or concepts along with the ability to make critical and/or creative decisions about the uses of those skills/concepts when the learning is student-centered and constructivist based.
Teachers can facilitate learning environments and learning events that lead to the eventual use of higher order thinking and the very very important assimilation and ability to transfer those skills out of the initial learning environment, but knowledge must precede application which precedes all important higher level thinking skills.
BLACK SLAVERY IS NOT HISTORYTOP
A real life thematic classroom project using multiple intelligences empowering students who wish to become modern day abolutionists and activists. Have children participate in an experience they will never forget. This is a human rights issue, not political or religious. Slavery is a direct violation against the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. This unit combines history, current events, education and activism. Service Project: Become an abolitionist, an activist, support the antislavery movement.Turn children into life long learners, give them skills that they will remember for a lifetime.
- Objectives:
Become an abolitionist. Find out about the outrageous active slave trade in the year 2001.
- Identify:
Governments involved and their rulers
- Research:
The plight of thousands of blacks who currently suffer the world's worst human rights violation, who are being captured and sold right now. What is the price of human life and freedom? Whole villages are captured, women are being raped, and men are mutilated and killed. Men, women and children are being marched to the slave markets.
- Synthesize Information:
Through personal expression, self-evaluation, collaborative group projects and service projects
CENSUS TOP
Tons of information straight from the U.S. Census Bureau's Public Information Office.
PLANTATION TOP
This site offers a fascinating opportunity to merge archaeological and historical thinking through the findings at this plantation. This one is guaranteed to provide food for thought!
BOOKS TOP
Individual titles AND an extensive bibliography of children's books; here are links to book resources for your studies of black history. Take a look...
FREE TOOLS TOP
Great free online tools teachers can use for the classroom. Make rubrics, download free collaboration software, quizzes, puzzles, multiple choice and more. . .
HIGHER EDUCATION TOP
If you feel you need to broaden your own understanding of African American history and current issues before broaching them with your students, be sure to spend some time here.
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