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Standard USHC-3.5

USHC-3.5 Evaluate the varied responses of African Americans to the restrictions imposed on them in the post-Reconstruction period, including the leadership and strategies of Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett.

Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

Black History Month: A Modern Perspective

Lesson

Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Students will understand the importance of the creation of Black History Month and the contributions of African Americans in the United States and the world.

The "Buffalo Soldiers": Contributions of the first African-American soldiers in the U.S. Army

Lesson

Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

In this lesson, students will learn the history of this group of patriotic, but little-known African American soldiers that were organized in the mid-1800s, right after the Civil War. Two different...