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

Year: 2011

Black History Month: A Modern Perspective

Lesson

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

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...

Tell Them We Are Rising: Successes and Failures of Reconstruction for People of Color

Lesson

Students will determine major educational, social and political issues or problems facing African Americans following Reconstruction. Students will analyze the successes and failures of such...