Unit
Black Americans in Congress
Collector:
Ann V.
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Lesson Planet
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Seven lessons make up a unit about African Americans who served in the United States Congress from 1870 to 2007. Young historians read contextual essays, engage in activities, examine primary source images, and artifacts to gain an understanding of their struggle to be recognized and heard.
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Concepts
abolitionists, african american history, african americans, artifacts, black history month, civil rights, civil war, critical thinking, elections, equality, fact and opinion, interpreting quotations, jim crow laws, justice, mississippi history, primary sources, quotations, racism, segregation, slavery, south carolina history, the civil rights movement, the cold war, the confederacy, the great depression, the great migration, the new deal, the progressive era, voter registration, voting, voting rights, world war i, photograph analysis, post world war ii, primary source analysis, primary source images, the emancipation proclamation, the great society, the voting rights act, the reconstruction era, the united states government, the united states civil war, the fifteenth amendment, the fourteenth amendment, the civil rights act of 1964, the united states congress, the thirteenth amendment
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