Read the Fine Print
In this lesson, students look to Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf as case studies that illustrate why African Americans left the South in record numbers and how communities came together in new urban environments, often around the sound of the Blues. Students will examine factors that prompted African Americans to migrate from the South to northern cities during the Great Migration, including the burdens of the sharecropping economy and racial discrimination, as well asanalyze various accounts of the Great Migration era in different mediums, including photographs, paintings, letters, and census data, determining which details are emphasized in each account.
- Subject:
- Social Studies
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- TeachRock.org
- Date Added:
- 08/06/2017