In this activity, students examine a journal excerpt and answer a series of questions. The questions are designed to guide students into a deeper analysis of the source and sharpen associated cognitive skills.

Students will explore the various ways they can ensure their voices are heard regarding issues they care about. To help students appreciate their own value, intelligence, and potential as political actors (Anyon, 2005, p. 179) students will role play different ways of taking political action and reflect on ways to more effectively lobby for change.

In this 4 part lesson plan, students will explore the Supreme Court's ruling on the University of Michigan's affirmative action program in 2011.

In this lesson, students learn about how the U.S. Supreme Court decided the affirmative action case of Fisher v. University of Texas and other similar landmark cases. Discussion questions are provided. In an associated activity, students will role play trustees of a public university charged with setting, among other things, admissions policy for the university and how affirmative action will be addressed. Each small group will report its decisons to the class for discussion.

This interactive map of Africa contains links to country maps which provide information such as, population, flag, language, capital, industry, and agriculture.

In this lesson, students read about how many African nations stagnated under brutal rulers and government-run economies, after gaining independence from European colonial powers, and how today, many of these nations are striving to establish democratic rule and free-market economies. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students form small groups, each of which will become a committee to advise the president on what the U.S. role in Africa should be.

In this 2 day lesson plan from Voices Across Time: American History Through Music , students will explore the song "Black and Blue" from the musical review Hot Chocolates and "Brown" form the musical Rang Tang and analyze how the harlem Renaissance affected African Awmerican expression in artwork, poetry, music, and pictures.

One of the heroes of the Battle of Bunker Hill was Salem Poor, an African American. Black people fought on both sides during the American Revolution. Census data also reveal that there were slaves and free Blacks living in the North in 1790 and after. What do we know about African-American communities in the North in the years after the American Revolution?

Students will choose a famous African American from history by researching grade-level articles, resources, and biographies. They will explore the life and legacy of their person and create a biography tab book documenting their important events.

Students will research an African American person based on set questions. The students will present their person in a digital presentation format.

In this lesson plan from the National Humanities Center site, Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History, students will explore how poetry allowed African American to critique and draw to light the injustices of slavery, discrimination, and disenfranchisment.

In this lesson, students view archival photographs, combine their efforts to comb through a database of more than 2,000 archival newspaper accounts about race relations in the United States, and read newspaper articles written from different points of view about post-war riots in Chicago.

Late in 1917, the War Department created two all-black infantry divisions. The 93rd Infantry Division received unanimous praise for its performance in combat, fighting as part of France's 4th Army. In this lesson, students combine their research in a variety of sources, including firsthand accounts, to develop a hypothesis evaluating contradictory statements about the performance of the 92nd Infantry Division in World War I.

Student will learn about the numerous contributions of African American soldiers to the Civil War, understanding the important impact they made to the Union. Students will then focus on a particular place, battle, or event where African American soldiers participated in the war effort and will create a historic site to educate the public regarding the "United States Colored Troops," as well as to honor their contributions.

Students will examine changes in African American voting rights throughout North Carolina's history. This lesson begins by reviewing key vocabulary. Students then independently research the history of African American voting rights in North Carolina using a primary source web quest or jigsaw activity.

In this lesson students analyze a propaganda poster, a photograph, and a poem to understand the tensions unleashed by the entry of African Americans into the industrial workforce during World War II.

Birthdays are a way to make a personal connection.  This enhances focus and engagement that helps students make positive connections culturally to other lives.  It uses Social Studies goals of learning about lifestyles, beliefs, ideas, and the influence that these have had on our world.  The EXCEL document has a list of 12 months of birthdays of African Americans.  This will give them access to any day of the year and a birthday to choose and look up to read about.  

Students will read the Constitutional amendments that guaranteed African Americans citizenship and the right to vote for African-American men, as well as use primary sources to develop a deeper understanding of why it was so difficult vote despite the passage of the 15th Amendment.
Students will understand why granting voting rights to African American men threatened the status quo in the South and evaluate the role of the federal government in expanding the right to vote.

In this lesson from the UMBC Center for History Education Teaching American History Lesson Plan site, students will use primary sources to analyze how African Americans shifted party loyalty from the Republican party to the Democratic party, in part due to Roosevelt and his New Deal programs.

In this lesson, students will explore the complicated period of the conflict in Vietnam, focusing on the role of African Americans in the war as well as on the discrimination they simultaneously faced at home. Through class discussion, examination of an anti-war comic book, exploration of political cartoons, and review of a less famous speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., students will study the various African Americans who protested the Vietnam War as well as their reasons for doing so.